Making another stab at the novel

Uh … yeah.I’ve done some more fiddling with the plot, removing the entire inn sequence—though the inn itself may return in a later chapter. Some of the characters have had their functions and family relationships reworked and I’ve rewritten what is sort of a prologue, even though I understand that many agents don’t like prologues …

Well, I did it… sorta

Yes, I made it to 50K (total of 50,257 actually) on my NaNoNovel, Wight Knights. No, as usual I didn't actually finish the thing. I will admit to doing some cut and paste from my 2010 novel, Tales of the Spruce Moose, so yes, I cheated a little. Much of what I cut and pasted …

Second test down…

And a happy Father's day for all the dads I know... including my own, my FIL, and my beloved Hubby! As the title states, the Girl took the second of her College Board tests - the ACT - yesterday. She said it wasn't quite as hard as the SAT and she was glad she didn't …

An interesting ten days

Well, the Hubby is getting better, if you don't count his cold. Two of the cats, Tika and Cotton, have been to see the vet (finally!) and now have been dewormed and given shots for their itchy skin (and flea treatment, as well). Boy #2 has been busy. He won his second basketball game 16-10 and was …

Happy Halloween!

We've hardly had any trick or treaters come to our door tonight and we bought lots and lots of candy to give out. I'm afraid that the kids will be taking chocolate in their lunches for the next two weeks! For the first time, we let the boys go out trick or treating. Boy #1 …

Interesting news from the pizza place.

Tonight was one of the fund-raising events that the elementary school has at our local Ci-Ci's pizza. The food is pretty good, the price is right, and Boy #2's teacher invited him to come (on her), so we all ate there. I was very, very bad: even though there was salad there, I ate nothing …

Waiting for the dam to break…

I am of the decided opinion that my muse is on vacation. It's been hard, really hard, to write much of anything over the past few days. A paragraph or two on The White Winds, and more on Overtures, but I had a deuce of a time trying to figure out what was wrong with the …

Familiar, yet unfamiliar

School started today. The kids were up bright and early, and were ready, dressed, with breakfast eaten, lunches made, bright eyed and bushy tailed... by 7 a.m. I couldn't take Boy #2 to school until 7:30, so we waited around (I checked my email and reviews) and at the dot of 7:30, he was out …

Put up the last chapter of Masquerade

So it's now officially complete. I've started writing Overtures and have chapter 9 of The White Winds well under way. People like the movie-verse fic and say it's very realistic, and very happy. I think it's about time that something without a lot of angst was written about the movie Alan. I mean, he couldn't …

I AM PUMPED!

Went to the diabetic management follow-up seminar today and took the kids. They behaved themselves very well and even bragged on me to the others in the group when I went out to get my weight and waist measured and, most importantly, my hemoglobin A1C test. This is the test that measures your blood glucose levels …