Gifts at the Cafe and an Update
Well, here we are again on a bright and shiny (and holy cow, cold) Wednesday. That means I’m over at the Confabulator Cafe!
This week, the Cafe is abuzz with Christmas lists. What can you gift a writer that won’t derail them from their writing? I love video games and Lego Monster Hunter sets and movies, but those are all things likely to distract me from actually getting words written.
So, all the Confabulators have come up with gift-giving ideas for the writers in your life. You can find mine here: Presents for Your Writer. (See how clever I was with the title? Yeah. I need more coffee. Clever doesn’t seem to be in the cards for me today.)
On the news front, I don’t have a lot to report. I can tell you that the zero draft of Fairies in My Fireplace, which came in a little over 75k words, is now a finished first draft a hair under 79k. So, the finished first draft is only about 1200 words less than my original estimate. This pleases me. I’m on target. Once it goes through more levels of editing, I’m sure it’ll plump quite a bit more.
My first readers have it to tear apart right now, which frees me up for a week to straighten out some short stories that need attention, write blog posts I’m behind on, finish getting Christmas ready to happen, and sort out other odds and ends that suffered through the writing and first edit stages of this novel.
All is well! I hope everyone is taking the holidays at a relaxed enough pace to enjoy them. I feel like I’m skating through it all. I’m sure I’ll figure out that I forgot something and freak out. For now, all is merry and bright.
See you real soon!
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