Well, I finally got past a nearly two week depression that was beginning to seriously stifle my ability to write and revise. I think I have some long projects getting close to finished and ready for sending on to my agent with fingers crossed.

On a personal level, at least things have settled down with the two guys who were threatening to bash my head in. I am getting too old for that kind of stuff. But I have a total inability to back down or bow to someone. One of this pair of brothers' girlfriend had made some false accusations and so they showed up at my door together. The older one must have figured he required backup dealing the psycho (me). So for a couple of weeks I was carrying a pipe wrench in my backpack, in a pocket I could draw it from fast. But that calmed down and some things that came from left field had me just totally blown out. But that last stuff involved getting hit in the pocket book rather than the face.

But now I'm back to writing. We'll see where the new stuff goes. Over the last three days I've heavily polished and revised a hundred pages by putting my editor's cap on. I think it was getting close already, but some of the scenes were still rough. I seriously want to get a lot of stuff off my desk by first of the year.