It’s been a strange two weeks, I have to admit.
Not working on Djinn and trying desperately not to think about it, has been odd – weirdly liberating, in fact.
I have been reading – a lot. I have also been catching up on some zzz’s. And on what is happening in the world in general.
This coming week, the second week in August, is my week’s holiday. It will be dedicated to reading the draft, nitpicking and worrying at the ms.
The holiday will also mean a visit to the British Museum as well as the Museum of London. For no other reason than to mooch.
I like mooching.
Bookstores and museums call for mooching. Slow strolls and lots of thoughts about an interesting object or book.
Then I may meet up with my friend Karen to talk writing, books, and then hubby Mark may stop by and we may have a brainstorming session or just talk all at once, in a fury of words, about writing, movies, comics, graphic novels, novels, fantasy, urban fantasy, DnD and whatever else we can think of.
To an outsider we must appear utterly and completely frigging nutz. Nothing else exists outside of this small circle of talk going on. We’ve had people leave our vicinity in the past due to serious and intense conversations getting out of hand with gestures getting bigger and wilder and voices getting raised and laughter – oh, the laughter!
There isn’t really much else planned for next week, to be honest. Just making notes on the draft, revising and then revising some more, fixing a few things that I know need fixing. And drawing up a wishlist of agents to approach in a few weeks’ time. *insert terrified face*
Oh, one thing I am thinking of doing is looking through some of my previous stories and short stories I wrote to gauge how much my writing has changed. I am sure it has. I remember being addicted to long chunky phrases and raptuous descriptions of sunsets and deep melancholy thoughts…but that was only a month ago fortunately a good long time ago and it’s going to be very interesting to see if I’ve improved! I honestly hope I have!
I may even stick a few items on here for you to point and snicker at. See, I am just that open to ridicule!