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Deadline 1: Got the GREEN MAGIC proposal off to Robin a couple days ago, heard back from her yesterday with revision requests (very small—overall, she was excited about the proposal), made the revisions over a couple of hours yesterday and resent the complete package, and that will go off to the editor, possibly today.

Deadline 2: I have Writer’s X’s manuscript (very good story) down to one small final section, and then I’ll do the overall crit letter. I’m still good to have that in the mail on the 15th.

Deadline 3: Next comes completion of THE RUBY KEY. I’ve been dreaming segments of this lately, always a sign that my subconscious is ready to play nice. I’ll start into that on Tuesday, and with that, will resume more regular posting, chronicling the progress of the story, plus the usual off-topic stuff.

Not looking any farther forward than Deadline 3 at the moment. I know 4: Hawkspar rewrite, and 5: 2nd 60,000-word YA, are out there. But for the moment, everything is giving the pleasant illusion of being under control and on time, so I’ll just enjoy that while I can.

Arrgh! Have passed halfway
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I didn’t realize how very much I’d changed in the revision.

A bad headache shot me down last night not long after I started type-in. So I got up early this morning and I’ve been typing since just past six-thirty AM.

I’ve just passed halfway, and while I think I was less bloodthirsty in revising the second half, this has already been one long day of work. And there’s plenty more to come, since it WILL be finished tonight.

Everything has been on hold for the last few days; I will get back to e-mails and other communication. Soon. In the meantime, apologies for the silence.

The rewrite has been all-consuming.
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The first draft of the Green Magic proposal went quickly. The second draft took another two days of massive work, because, well, I’m picky as hell and I ripped the first draft to shreds.

It’s done, it’s a bit longer, and I’m doing type-in now, and will be working late into the night.

The rest of the week will go to the Writer X novel crit, which I need to have in the mail on the 15th in order to have time to finish writing THE RUBY KEY and getting that into the mail by the end of March, which has to be done by then so that I can do the re-revision of HAWKSPAR before it’s too late to keep that book on the schedule (but the edit letter hasn’t arrived yet, so I may still have a wee bit of time on that. (And there’s one on-spec proposal that has to be fitted into all of this, yet, and the possibility of the completion of an in-progress novel. Before the end of April.)

My office is still a mess.

Onward with Green Magic I
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I finished the first draft the day before yesterday, hitting my goal of 10,000 words. Yesterday I revised. Today I’m revising some more. I want the dialogue to be sharp, the conflicts to be immediately apparent, and the movement from scene to scene to be smooth and clear.

Have the whole thing printed out and am scrawling like mad. I’ll do final type-in, and finish the whole thing before noon.

And then I’m going to take the weekend off, and clean my freakin’ office.

Goal Today
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Ended yesterday at 5046 words, with chapters 1, 2, and the first part of three completed. Today, I want to get to 10,000 total, with the completion of chapter 3, the synopsis, and some possibilities for the future of the series.

Getting a late start—a lot of dithering beforehand. That can wreck a writing day. But I’ll still get there.

Green Magic I
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Green Magic I is the working title of the pseudonymous on-spec project I’m putting together for unnamed Editor B.

My goal on this is 10,000 words between today and tomorrow, to include the first three chapters, a synopsis, and my ideas on other books in the series.

I’ve done some backgrounding, and did a huge amount of thinking over the holidays about this project. I’m hoping the writing itself will go quickly.

Can’t say too much about the book, but it’s got a very cool black-ops government witch as the heroine, and a guy who was a member of a mercenary team that rescued kidnapped Americans from hostile countries as the hero. And the villian is wicked, and based on a real-life example. I think it will be fun.