Being pulled two ways

I have the disk. And I really really want to read it. However, I am weary. I know if I read it, I will start to think about it, about what comes next, both in the next book, and in the state of the current one. I'm gonna be flooded with fancy for Ishalia and the publishing world... however, the labour day long weekend needs me to be intensely focused on the plight of a Albuquerqueian girl -- I can't afford to be in Ishalia. I don't know what to do....

To read, or not to read...

The Goose Flies at Dawn by the Setting Sun

Very funny, on my way to Alex's place today i met up with her and gave her the floppy o'doom. I'm suprised she hasn't said anything about that yet actually, and a little disappointed. There is no sign that bethy has every looked at the internet today. Baaaaad bethie.

we had a rendevouse point and everything, it felt terribly covert. Like we should have pass words and be exchanging secrets. Well, our future livelyhood was on that little disk, so I suppose...

I just thought I'd write that down before i toddle away.

I KNOW!

I actually started laughing with like... jubilation? when i read that. i know it beth we can do it, and it's so true, it is so true that so many don't make it past that part, that 2nd manuscript and just wow!

you know? Of course you know.

I was getting so into the writing last night, when I thought of using Nenan as a witness against laleena I started to grin wickedly.It was very emotional. Just wow, i know.

Yay!!

Very happy to read that last post, and very much excited!! Now we have to talk about next steps... I want to read it right away of course, but then I think we'll have to let it sleep till after 3-day before our next step(s). Do we edit all at once, or edit while working on book two... and when do we start with the submissions. Oh god, the submissions... At least one more edit, I figure... or a half edit. Some publishing houses will take up to a year to get back to us -- if they request anything in less than that and we're only half edited, I'm sure we can pull together some miracles!

Oh god... it's all coming together. We have to think titles again. I am so excited right now. It seems silly, because I've known for a while that we've been this close, but still it's all very wow. Way wow. Manuscript number TWO of our baby is complete. So many "aspiring authors" never even get through the first manuscript of their first work, that we most definately have something to be proud of. We did it girl! You did it, I did it. Not too long now till we start actively persuing that wee goal of ours: our names in print, in bookstores.

Wowowowowowow. I'm psyched!

Definitely have to post here!

You see I finished the first book manuscript #2 last night. It was... It was a struggle, I ended up not getting to sleep till 5am.

Ok I wasn't writing that whole time, I wrote from about 1:30am to 3:15, then I read the 17 page document, and by the time I was ready for bed it was something after 4... it then took me some time to fall asleep.

It's done. How much did I write last night... about five pages, four pages. I got my scenes in, and I do believe it is now superior to the previous (as can be said about all the rewrites). There are SO MANY punctuation mistakes though. I couldn't fix them all last night, but in order for proper inflection and all that good stuff to come through... *sighs* I'm going to have to make a run through... Just not now is all.

It's done. It's done. It's done... That's like 8-9 pages, two days... not over much in all truth but think about it... For a girl that was stuck, it's enough.

I wrote the end to Slipknot. Now bethie do not shudder, it was very appropriate and I skipped over most of the screamy songs. "Prelude 3.0" was very appropriate for what I was doing, as were some of the others. They discuss possestion and in prelude 3.0 one of the main lyrics is "and now it's over" there are other ones too... basically the intensity was required.

I wanted to listen to Nelly Furtado "Folklore" but couldn't because the piece wanted Slipknot. It was most frustrating.

Now I can hope that Allie forgets our arrangment to hang out today, because I feel that I would be no fun, and really all I wanna do is laze around and rest my eyes.

Maybe read... though that is not resting my eyes.

Merry day o' birth!!

Okay... So Susan stole what was obviously supposed to be my title for this blog... and I'm technically a day late as it's after midnight, but I wanted to wish this blog a happy birthday too!

I haven't written anything really in quite some time, but I'm more than excited about the three day novel contest... and I've got some names! So that's what I'm going to offer as Writing Blog's birthday gift.

My two main characters:
Rosa Maria Santigo
Liam Scott McLeod

And another random character's name that I just happen to like:
Seignor Andre Alejandro Santigo (her father)

Well that's enough for now, happy birthday

Happy Birthday!

Yay writing blog, you poor neglected little blog.

I wrote today, I wrote a substantial amount today, you may thank Lauren for that, she was very supportive and there when I needed her to be. I wrote like four pages, which for me, of late, in this stage of the game, was a substantial amount. It's almost done, i give it maybe three more pages and then *BAM* first book complete. It's so emotional though, i figure that's why i've been avoiding it, i'm near to tears at the thought of what i'm about to do to these people. My mother called me in to help make dinner at all too an inoppertune time... I'll probably write more tonight, probably but if not it's soon to be finished. That court case was hard to write and yet so... mini and not at all complicated really, just... i think it's because i knew what would happen after and was digging in my heals.

For now, i think i'm ready to give in to the events that are to come, i feel much calmer after haveing written, like something (a small something) was lifted off my shoulders.

OK, now this normally happens in waves

Last night I didn't want to read, I didn't want to do anything really that I normally do before going to sleep, and sitting there curled up listening to the radio just made me restless, so I thought "What do I want to do" and then it struck me, "Duh write" so I hurridly cleaned off my chair and sat down, got about half a page done and felt stuck again. That's alright though, because this normally happens in waves, now all I have to do is get the urge once or twice again and I should be past this uncomfortable hump and into the area that I know is going to be good and fun and dramatic.

So, hope that this works out for me. I wrote a poem after I wrote that piece. Gripe gripe gripe still. Alright then whatever happens, I will perservere.







AH HA! Just checked and your birthday is tomorrow little mr Writingmyself blog! Wow, almost a year with you.

You know

I have actually written something since last I posted, like a whole page actually. Really it's just been difficult to write this part because I know what I want from it, it's just so... conflicting, I want it to be serious, but entertaining, and as a young writer, it's just, taking an effort to pull that off.

Slowly yet surely, inch by inch it is happening. Slowly. Very slowly... *Gripes*