No school, no much of anything thanks to snow, freezing rain, and general coldness. We're all going a little bit stir crazy. I think that's to be expected. CrazyHorse wants to run. Mama wants to sleep. Wolverine wants to learn to crawl. Makes for a few interesting days.
On the writing front: things are going great - I'm so close to being done with the rewrites that I can see the end on the horizon and am having to force myself to hold back, not to run full tilt and gloss over all the changes I want to make. All the beauty I want to add to a not so beautiful ending to the story of Ketryl... It has to be *right*. I've started making a list of Publishers/Agents that I want to query... I figure if I start now putting things together, then by the time I get to that point, I'll be ready. I suck at query letters... I believe I've said this before... Can't help it. I have too much to say and I am terrible at tearing my work to shreds to find the one thread that will hold the most appeal for any one reader... If that's my downfall, so be it I suppose. I'll just have to start hitting conferences and do the rounds of pitching that way - when I talk about it, it's different - I can convey my energy, my passion while still giving just the facts maam and I don't feel like I'm a miserable failure at explaining my work when I talk about it.... Wow - my biggest flaws and fears aren't buried all that deep today.
On the publishing front: things are not so great. Got a bunch of rejections, pulled a couple of things after the third queries went unresponded to (it's been a year since the original sub in each case...). On the upside - I have a story in a contest that appears to be doing fairly well - I may even make it to the second round. My first story was not so well received. But, alls fair as they say.
What an interesting week it's turning out to be... Hubby's working Midnights so I'm not going to get as much done as I want. I'm reading a novel for a member of a crit group - a whole novel reading - not a chapter by chapter critfest like I'm used to but a sit down, read it, and tell her what does/doesn't work for me as a whole. I think I like doing this better than the chapbychap work. And hopefully I'll have SA ready for reciprical before too wickedly long.
Enough for today...
Happy Valentines Day!
~Sarah