"Why is he smiling at me?"

 Last night I was feeling very unaccomplished, so I put on my Enya CDs, curled on my comfy chair - "I got him to say comfy chairs!" - and spent two hours editing Abolished Impracticality. (Though by the second hour I was dozing on and off.)

 I set myself editing goals, which I should have done a long while ago because I wouldn't be working on it all now if I had done some in the summer. (As I've mentioned, I work better with editing when I have a dead line and it is looming over my head.)
 Right now I am doing my own personal read through of the book, making notes to myself, and scolding myself for a cruddy scene I wrote. Once I have this round done, which should take a week or so, I plan to add in the edits my beta readers have been sending me while I read the first book again to make sure I repeated nothing in book two from book one. (I even got myself a handy little board I can write notes on and erase them as I don't need them. I've hung it above my desk so I won't risk forgetting any said notes. But at this rate, I will need a bigger board soon.)

 So, all of that is the reason I am not doing a world building post today but am babbling about nonsense and other great facts of life.

 I am hoping to have most of my editing - if not all - done by November. I don't want to have to try and editing and do NaNo this year - that was SUCH a bad idea last year. Instead, I will polish up the formatting and work on the cover. (Anyone want to pose for a tall, lanky Italian with almost white hair?)
 I don't mind formatting, now that I know what I am doing, but I am not crazy about formatting with pictures. It takes a lot of time and work to get the pictures to look right in the book, I can't just stick them into their proper place and move on. I have to size them and adjust them so they will be in the best viewing position for the reader. (And, the same with Clair, you will want these in the best viewing position because they are great pictures.)
 The closer it gets to the release date, I am thinking of doing another set of picture reveals like I did with book one. But I need to get in contact with my artist first, and get closer to the release date - which really isn't that far away if one is editing. (If you're waiting for the book I am sure it is longer.)

 Anyways, NaNo this year. I am very excited for it even though I'll have to share my computer with John again because he wants to join in again like last year.
 I've been playing around with two ideas, trying to pick one. One idea is a book I've written ten times already and now that I have a great plot - thanks to the efforts of my dear Mycroft - I would like to get it written for the final time. (FINAL!!! Here me, characters?! FINAL!!)
 But, I also have a new, shinny idea running around in my head which...well, it is new and shinny. All of you authors out there know how hard it is to turn down something new and shinny, especially when it is a plot.
 And then, of course, there is book two to last years NaNo. So, once again, too many choices. (I could even work on The Broken Blade some more even though it is considered naughty to write a book which is already being worked on.) Maybe I will save The Broken Blade for next summer and finish the whole rough drafts of the series while I don't have other things looming over my head.
 Oh yes, and then there is book three in the Loyalty trilogy which needs written. And now I am going to shut up before I undust even more ideas which I put aside until I got The Broken Blade done.

 And that is my life summed up at the moment. Well, most of my life. There is all of the other things going on as well, but they are not really worth mentioning right now.

 But I did mean to ask in my last post. Did all of you get in your last minute summer plans last month? Did you do anything grand and epic - or even something which seems less grand and epic but was still fun?

 The website is still in the works. My dear kindred spirit has been offering me all kinds of help and tips and I am slowly inching towards getting it all set up. So, maybe soon I shall be very official. Or maybe it won't be soon, because this is computer related and I am not the fastest when it comes to things like this.
 I am trying to decide on colours though, does anyone have any thoughts on this? (Something which would maybe be a mix between Steampunk and Fantasy - the two main genres I write.) Any opinions or thoughts would be a huge help right now.

 And now I will end this and get up and eat breakfast because my stomach is growling loud enough to wake the dead.

 Quote is from Tangled.

 Allons-y!