man.

Man. No email from the publisher. I’d worked myself into an Unreasonable Hope, this morning. :)

the hours

I went to The Hours tonight. It’s an excellent movie with excellent performances by the entire cast, and Nichole Kidman looks and sounds nothing at all like Nichole Kidman. I also wrote 1080 words today. I think I can manage to make the other 20 up tomorrow. :) Did a little bit of laundry. Whee. :) Sarah and I spent quite a while going through our Writers/Novels Market books and finding appropriate publishers to query for Josie. We ended up with an even dozen, 5 of whom request S&3 and…

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oh, tangent

Oh, on a tangent, Sarah and I decided last night to dig out the Josie manuscript, do a little more rewriting/tweaking/editing, write up a new synopsis, and send it out to people who publish Westerns. We’ll be sending out queries and/or S&3s on Feb 1. Anybody got any opinions on how rewrites count towards total wordcount?

chipper!

Got up way late this morning. V. spoiled. Have accomplished Diddly, followed by Squat. Well, I managed to put a blanket into the laundry; I suppose that counts for something. And I ate breakfast. I’m becoming rather fond of this apple-before-a-meal plan. It’s yummy! Today is Ted’s birthday! Happy birthday to Ted! *beam*

more writing, & birthdays!

Ted has had a very successful birthday party. :) He made a stunningly yummy lasagna, then got a whole bunch of good loot (cooking stuff, Farscape, LotR DVDs, a circular saw…) and then we ate the stunningly good German chocolate cake I made. :) Now we are bloated, like warthogs, but we are happy! I also got another several hundred words written, for a total of 1300ish for the day. This is good. :) ytd wordcount: 7900