Mallory

Two more chapters in the can. I am estimating 1-3 till the end, depending on loose ends and things.

Right now my heroine is getting ready to do battle with the birds - think Alfred Hitchcock type birds. Actually, she is doing battle with the bird 'flu' but you won't tell anyone will you?

She is barefoot and in her bra and camo pants - cute huh?

My chapters are under 3000 words in length so I am just over 45,000 words at this point. Still, I am quite pleased to be managing active chapter writing and actually a reasonable shot at finishing this book in a week or so. That is both cool and a bit scary. I think Jazi's story (Mata Hari's Headdress) is up next AFTER I edit ES for Chelsea and cash.

Mom is threatening on the horizon - probably Saturday with sister and sick step dad - OMG

And, another one down :)

This was a fun chapter because Charlotte was asleep and in a magical war :) She found her ring, on the finger of a man and held his hand to force him to use it. Such fun!

She has discovered, that she is probably a witch -- who knew!

Chapter 18 is in the can. In this chapter Charlotte discovers that her life is being written on storyboards, as she lives it. Curiosity drags her over to read about her life :)

I discovered I need to embroider around each letter on this damn quilt - gah!

Yup - I'm working and writing and quilting and generally doing what I'm s'posed to be doing.

Boring huh?

I hope to get to a new chapter on the book today. That will happen later. I did write two articles which YOU should be reading on examiner.com and yahoo.com - come on over and follow me, I write good decorating articles :)

My next bit of business - lunch :)

I woke in a good mood to work and so far have written one article and I want to do a second before quilting.

I didn't write anything much yesterday - I was a total slacker!

Such fun and well worth the money!

I have an unresponsive script that hangs up page after page ::sigh::

In any case, writer's group went well today but I have trouble pushing my mind back to the chapters they are reviewing - they are so 10 chapters ago :)

I feel discombobulated and may need to nap to restart the brain into productivity.

I ate too much between breakfast and lunch.

I should sew.

BAH!

Blogging again on a regular basis is still a challenge for me.

Today I hope to work on a quilt for a housemate that requires both applique and quilt sewing.
I also want to write the next chapter for the current book and I have a cute transparent hot chef jacket ready to cut. I bought the buttons for it yesterday and THEY are cute too :)

I wrote one article and got approved by a new client - YAY! The only problem with new clients is that each is a learning curve and I don't have time today to go play on their format to see how everything works - maybe tomorrow.

I am so tired of the excessive current editors at Demand. They are so afraid for their jobs that they are leaking red ink. It makes each already rough article WORSE for no damn reason. Right now we are doing orphan titles over there which means they are the most difficult to write and are often more than 10 steps. Some of the copy editors feel it is essential to make a note on each step even when their note is not remotely valid - its a bit like walking in mud for a writer. New clients with confident editors will make me a happy writer again.

Bah!

Chapter 17 was difficult to write - squeeze squeeze and too short for me.

I am almost at 40,000 words and contemplating how big this novel should be. I am tentatively shooting for 65,000 hoping that will be a satisfying length for my readers.

I sort of know the pivotal climax scene.
I know the next chapter in part.
I should have about 10 chapters left to reach my length.
I think I have more outlining to do.

BAH!

I did buy batting for the Newman quilt today - it was half off - BONUS for me!