Working Hard at Working Hard

I promise to keep this short.  How short?  150 words short, perhaps?   Darn, I just wasted another four words.

Pomodoro Penguin and Violet Owl swing from a tree in the backyard.

I keep saying to myself that I will write in my blog daily.   I am lucky to write weekly at this point. Am I a slacker?  Hardly!  As a matter of fact, I am working hard at working hard.

Squeezed in between wedding plans, I have managed to reach the 90% complete mark on the second Pomodoro Penguin book.  This little penguin has turned into a full-time obsession.     That’s right.  Now that people actually LIKED the first book and are EXPECTING the second book, I need to deliver.

I somehow worked harder on “Pomodoro Penguin and the Geography Giraffe” than I did on the “Pomodoro Penguin Makes a Friend.”    I knew I wasn’t reinventing the wheel, but the story is more complicated, the book is 60% longer, and with two new characters, the illustrations are more involved.   

The good news is, I like where the book is headed, and I am sooo close to hitting publish, a mere 15 days after I hit publish on the first one.      The story for “Pomodoro Penguin Visits Italy” is already swimming in my head.  

With that being said, I have about four more drawings to make, some final edits to complete, and I must be over my 150-word limit!   See you on the other side.