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Brain Farts & Reader Fails

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I haven’t fallen off the face of the Earth, I swear. I’ve been busy putting the finishing touching on my sci-fi romance (which I just finished those last touches on last night) so I could get it off for submission and have another story waiting in the wings for me to start editing. For those that don’t know what I classify the difference as:

Revisions = I think something doesn’t work

Edit = I had a brain fart or my fingers and brain weren’t communicating very well

So, in addition, I had an idea for a quickie story I jotted notes down for last night. The brain – she doesn’t want to stop. I know better than to complain however and because of all of this, my reading has taken a severe beating. I won a copy of No Reservations by Megan Hart & Lauren Dane from Lauren Dane herself well over a month ago and I’m just getting time to sit down and read it. Normally, I’m beating down the bookstore’s front door the day a new J D Robb …in Death book is released and I’ve not gotten a chance to read that one either. It’s been sitting on my nightstand taunting me. Ava Gray’s Skin Game and Deborah Cooke’s Winter’s Kiss are there as well. Needless to say, I’ve had massive amounts of reader FAIL this entire month. But, I was one of the early pre-buyers of Barnes & Noble’s nook eReader, so I will have mine in my hands at the first part of December. While that won’t help me with my already purchased books, I hope it will help me keep up after.

Now that I’m done rambling about my shortcomings as a reader,  there’s another Author Blog Tour in the works. If any of you were around for the Trick or Treat Blog Tour for Halloween, you’ll remember what a great time was had, great bodies were gazed upon and books were given away. I’ll have more details when they’re available.

WiPs in Outer Space

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Things have gotten a little hectic around my household as I just finished up my 2nd rough draft pass on the 2nd book in the Rebirth series Sunday night and I immediately dug into my next WiP, which is not a Rebirth book. It’s a sci-fi romance and doesn’t have a title yet despite the word count indicator on the side of my website. That’s a placeholder only for the time being (Grey is the last name of one of the characters and Frost is the name of my new computer). But, since I do have an active WiP, this month’s Excerpt Monday offering on the 9th (this coming Monday) will be from that sci-fi book.

Personally, I’m not taking part in it, but this month is National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo) and millions of people worldwide are frantically working their fingers to the bone to have 50,000 word by the deadline, Nov. 30. I wish all the participants luck and have fun!

Where There’s a Paddle, You’re Not Always Up the Creek

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Sometimes, writing is like a giant game of Row, Row, Row Your Boat. In other words, rowing up a stream and going nowhere. Okay, you go somewhere, but times like these – you sometimes wonder.

I’m in the process of tearing apart Dark Fire, the second in the Rebirth series. There were a few things in the story that I didn’t particularly care for and this was my opportunity to set right all the wrongs I had. Which is usually a lot since it was still the first draft. Sometimes, this can be a daunting take, tearing a first draft apart like this. For instance, last night, I cut around a thousand words from my MS. Within an hour or two, I put back 900. This morning, I put another 800 in. So I made up what I took out, plus some.

It doesn’t always work this way. I’ve taken out 5000 and only put back 1000. Sometimes it’s just taking out something that didn’t work (because not everything does). Sometimes it’s making things tighter and corrects an unbalanced flow. Sometimes, realistically, things just suck.

I’m just glad right now that there’s no holes in the boat as I’m not interested in the whole “There’s A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea” deal right now. ;)