Beauty tweaks finished.

Finished the tweaks and cold read of Beauty this morning.  They’re now off for review by M.L. for her thoughts.  Once any further tweaks are done based upon her suggestions, I’ll move into final editing so I can get it posted to SOL and updated at Lit.

Going to relax for a few minutes, and then see which story is speaking to me to write on.

EDIT: ( a little later ) Almost up to 1k words on the final chapter of Lowborn.  Fiddled a little with that potential summer story ( taboo ) as well.  Headed back to Lowborn once I finish posting this.

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Lil’ o’ this and a lil’ o’ that

Lots of interruptions and annoyances today.  I’ve worked a little on Lowborn, a possible Summer story for the contest at Lit, and a few other things.

Hoping for some quiet time later to work on the read of Beauty.  If not, I’ll take care of it in the morning before the young one gets up.

We’ll see where things have shaken out tomorrow.  Odds are that anything I get done tonight will push up to the point where I’m too tired to report it *laugh*

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A little beat tonight

Not feeling up to snuff tonight.  I did a little tweaking and wrote a few lines on Lowborn, but I’m just too tired to visualize.

Probably going to do what I mentioned earlier and work on those How-To documents, so I keep writing and don’t get out of the groove.

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Think I’ve got it.

Finished the last few tweaks on Beauty tonight, I think.  I’m going to let it sit for a day or two for a cold read and then make final adjustments and do my first pass edit before sending it off to M.L. for her thoughts on the revisions.

In the meantime, I’ll likely get cracking on the final chapter of Lowborn.  I think I may actually start it tonight, since the young one has taken a rare trip to bed early.

I’m probably going to work on a couple of how-to’s for Lit whenever I’m not feeling especially creative.  It should help keep me writing and in the groove when things around here aren’t conductive to fiction.  One will be a detailed document on the editing process there, which is hardly intuitive, and the other will be suggestions on how to choose categories for multi-genre stories.

Both are questions that come up frequently on the forum, so I thought I’d add something to the story file that might help.

Now, for a few minutes of downtime, and I’ll see if I’m awake enough to forge forward into the conclusion of Lowborn.

EDIT: ( a little later )  First 350 words of Lowborn 09 are done 🙂  May be more before the night’s over, but the chapter is now officially in progress on “paper”.

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And, getting closer

I’m almost done with the larger revisions related to M.L.’s suggestions, and it’s actually turning out a lot easier than I was making it *laugh*

I was looking at possibly adding or modifying several scenes, and it turns out that a paragraph here and a line there will actually get across what I left out.  If I’d had time before the deadline, I might have even caught some of it myself, but there’s a reason I have M.L. look over all these — I always miss a few things, and she always catches them.

Next step is fleshing out some of the scenes in the last third that I didn’t have as much time to read through and tweak before posting it in the contest.  Then, it will be adding bits of color to the world throughout.

After that, I’ll go into my full first-pass edit I usually do before sending a story out to first readers, let alone posting it.

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