Confession

Dear Melody:

I cannot BELIEVE I just did that to you. Seriously. I don't know what happened, but it just...wow. It just took off there, didn't it? I'm still in shock myself, and I imagine you're probably kind of a little upset right now.

Ahem. Don't look at me like that. Your eyes are freaking me out.

I didn't mean for that to happen. Er...any of that. So you don't really need to...

Put down the longbow. Please. Yes, I realize I gave it to you in the first place. But I don't really think now is the right time to--

Hey. Stop that! No, I won't change it. I won't. It's good. Believe me, the readers* are going to like that part. Even if it is fairly awful...

HEY. That was uncalled for. Watch out, missy, or it's just going to get worse in the next chapter.

{ducking}

me

*This is assuming readers, yes, we are thinking positive.

Melody

Yay 20%!

I am so in the Early Stages of love-love-love with it.

My song

I am not posting much because I'm writing and it's going really well. This is the song I posted to my writing buds yesterday, because I really am that much of a geek:

Oh, I'm...

playing in the mountains of Moldavia,
Moldavia,
Moldavia,

Oh I'm playing in the mountains of Moldavia,
And I have got a plot.
And a man-god.

Woo-hoo!

*back to work*

Whew

And yay, made my monthly goal on MELODY. Now I may eat cake.

Okay, a second piece of cake. Stolen from the kitchen. The end piece. :)

Melody!

We had a great weekend! Mostly sunny and fun, enjoying the outdoors. Everything is finally green and blooming, and it's glorious!

Currently I am buried under my pile of work. However, I did get to spend some time during lunch starting my writing journal for the next book, working title MELODY. Oh yeah, baby. I'm hopping with all the possibilities. This looks like a fun one.

And now I'll go take my Mary Sunshine self off back to work, before anyone is suffocated by my cheerfulness.

The shape of the future

AHA!

Over the weekend I started to see the shape of Ghost Girl. I remember this happening about the halfway mark with Jenna too--suddenly what was rather vague wandering around and doing stuff begins to crystallize into plots, threads, themes, and issues. I start to see what I will need to change, strengthen, and cut. Where I will deepen characters and relationships. I feel a surge of excitement, that I can really make this a good book. It's like I've been sculpting with no idea what the final product will be, and then I just SEE.

I also see the mounds of work ahead to get there. Yes, there will be massive rewrites necessary. But this sense of shape is validation that it will work when I'm done.

For now, though, forward progress continues. I just stuck Nat in a very lovely (not) situation I'm quite pleased with. Reminder: never volunteer to be one of my heroines.

Last night--sleepless again--I also got a bit more info on the NEXT book. I had to sit on her to get her to stop telling me about it, because I just can't listen to her right now. Her name, BTW, is Melody.