All pregnant women seem to go through a phase of nesting... I think I am too but it's not normal nesting. I'm not cleaning the house or readying the nursery - even if I have less than six weeks now to do it. What I am doing is writing. I'm working on Strange Angels. My main focus novel. During this series of revisions - I've realized just how much was lacking to the story. I had the bones - but they were bare. Now I have some of the skin and muscle to hold those bones together. I'm probably 3/5ths of the way through the story now and the difference is huge. It doesn't hurt that the first version of Strange Angels was completely wrong and I've stripped out well over half of it and now I'm getting on the right track. I can feel it. It's getting better every day. Once this rewrite is done, hopefully before the baby comes, I'll leave it out for crits with my group for a while and let it steep while I move on to my next project - Evolution of a Shadow. Then - when it's removed enough from my head - I'll go back and do another revision. Once that is done - I'll find a few beta readers and begin the query process to agents & publishers. I didn't make my goal of having it ready this year. I know it won't be. But - sometime next year I should be able to start the process of shopping SA. I won't make the goal I set in 1997 (which is why I was pushing so hard) but - it won't be because I didn't try it will be because I did try but did not meet my own quality standards.
~S