Backstory: 14 hours into the challenge in January, having a blast, and churning out 9 thousand words like butter from a mechanized implement, threw myself out of the running because it was taking me away from TASK #1.
Task #1: It seemed a shame that I had finally finished my first draft only to pitch it aside like yesterday’s infatuation because a new skirt had just been spotting swaying into view. I realized with a mild sort of guilt that I was doing the wrong thing (even though it gave me great pleasure, yes, a guilty pleasure). I was not saving the last dance for the girl I brought.
Task #2: Extricate myself from the overwrought girlfriend metaphor.
Eventual Task #3: My non-fiction book, Lost From Space: The Missing Moon Rocks, took about three hours of research and fact checking to one hour of writing, so there were not enough hours in the day to give serious energy to both projects: the rocks and my novel, which rocks.
Current Schedule for Task #1: The Fastnacht League - All of the edits of the first revision have finally been word processed – so naturally, I’m finding more – these are of the typo, left side of my brain things.
Now I’m working on my query letter, trying to get one presentable so that John can help me tweak and tighten it up.
I have put off making a confirming, plot diagram until I finish a first draft query letter for John to review.
As soon (and I mean moments after) I shoot the letter off to my literary rabbi, I will work a diagram up. Then while I am redoing my query letter, John can be trashing my plot diagram.
After I send out my query letters, first batch, I’ll launch into Revision #3 which will spill into April.
Editor’s note: This is a schedule in a blog- very few pains were taken to make this more than just barely readable. I have no time for style points.
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