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
Six months old...
Wolverine had his checkup and his shots... yesterday was miserable.
He’s eating cereal very well now and we only have about a week or so before we begin to venture into the world of Vegetables! This thrills me to some extent but, like the appearance of teeth, it means he’s getting bigger, getting older. And I’m never going to have another newborn that came from me. Ever. So I’m sad.
Makes me wonder if the TL was the right decision... ah well... probably for the best in the end and I’ll just have to come to terms with it. It certainly seemed the best at the time after I’d gained 80 pounds and was truly utterly miserable and expecting lots of comlications with the delivery. How easy it had been to say - just tie me off when you’re in there Doc...
the mistakes we make with good intentions and a healthy dose of fear...
~Sarah
Strange things afoot
The last few days have been very trying to say the least. Wolverine had a high temp, nasty cough, runny nose, and wicked rash so we took him to the doctor’s - temp is mostly from teeth, cough is from congestion, runny nose is caused by weather, and rash is caused by contact dermatitis - probably his detergent... Seriously? Who the hell is allergic to Dreft?? apparently my son because I brought him home, put on the cream they prescribed, washed a handful of clothes in his bath soap (aveeno) and changed him. His skin cleared up so fast you can barely tell he had any sort of problem.
Just when I get Wolverine put together, I go down for the count - 104 temp and miserable. I’m just getting over it now. Still have some wicked congestion but it’s this damned crazy weather!
Crazy Horse lost his first tooth yesterday!! He woke up at 5 to show us. He’s growing up faster than I want him too. Of course.
I found a friend of mine online that I haven’t talked to in far too many lifetimes and am happy about that. I must be very weird because for me, it’s as if no time at all has passed and I seem to have picked up right where we left off - as if there hasn’t been this five year gap. I’m glad it’s like that. I wouldn’t want it to be otherwise, but it probably is a bit odd.
On the writing front - it’s been going absurdly great. I believe I may have written the best poem I’m ever written (at least since Crow Queen). I’ve actually rewritten quite a few things as well - made them better than they were, chopped poems up for lines and played literary chop shop. I wrote something like 300 poems in high school that suck. But they all have a good line or two, something worth keeping so I’ve been playing while holding Wolverine (who’s being especially clingy). It’s working out really well. I’m going to be starting to submit this poems this month so I guess we’ll just have to wait and see if anyone agrees with me.
Slowly but surely, it’s all coming together...
~Sarah