Let's hope it works! Meanwhile, I head back to the doctor for a follow-up tomorrow morning at 8:30AM to see if I am healing properly. God, I hope I am. I am so sick of this interfering with my life. And I am a bit frightened as well. This is a bacteria in my abdomen! Visions of hospitals and IVs and more doom dance through my head on a regular basis right now.
The only thing that is keeping me sane is the writing. I managed to work on the first two chapters this morning. I utilized a judge's edit (very kind!) and feel better about the story overall. And the comments about the beginning were good, so no need to change much other than the "kiss" scene. I think I can manage it. This afternoon I plunked down some more stuff for the query by cutting and pasting different ideas together as well as pieces of another short synopsis I had written eons ago.
Now to work on the actual synopsis. I have one. It's not perfect, but it is done. I plan to go into it and make sure I have all the main plot points in it, as well as something that shows my characters and my writing voice. Baby steps. It's all baby steps. I figure if I spend an hour a day on the dreaded and dastardly thing, I might have one ready by May 2nd.
Writing stories is so much more fun!
2 comments:
Good luck with your writing and your health!
I, too, am often distracted by legitimate life events... I need to follow your example and buckle down.
Thanks Kate:
I am slowly getting my act together today. 2 hours at the doctor/lab taking blood and then 2 super long phone calls and a census worker later, and I finally have time to look at the tasks before me.
Buckle down, but sometimes I use this mantra: even one hour is better than none. Somehow making it seem like I only have to do one hour forces me to write and work for longer periods on days when I feel derailed.
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