In Her Hands, words written: 1166
In Her Hands, words total: 11, 567

I got editor comments for my first BattleTech story today. Very minor changes needed. Contract and check should follow within a month or so. Boy, I really needed this warm fuzzy right now. Once I’m done with the Brava novella, I’m going to finish up the second story and get it fired off to them. That one, I imagine, will need a little more work, since I’m setting it partly at an event that’s already been heavily written about. (My original draft is wrong, wrong, wrong when it comes to that wedding reception. But I have the book in which it’s described; just need to read it and then I can make the changes.) And _then_ I want to research another area of the BattleTech universe for future stories. Way cool.

Otherwise, today was the usual. Didn’t get to the beach or the Internet café as I’d hoped, but we did go food shopping and I made satay-style beef and pasta with broccoli for supper. Also picked up matzo ball soup at Roxsbury Deli for poor sick Morgana.

Now, though, I’ve got to get back to the novella. I left my characters in a hot, steamy clinch—in the shower. :-)

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Somebody stole our pumpkins! We had three mid-sized pumpkins on either side of the front steps up to the porch, and now they’re gone. That is so not cool. Bastards. I hope they get painful boils on their private parts.

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There’s a cat outside, miaowing. I am not making this up. Eostre hears it, too. But when I go outside to check, I can’t find anything. Weird.

(I used to have a sign from a _Twilight Zone_ magazine that said “What if it wasn’t a cat?” Heh heh heh. Good thing Ken’s home!)

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Well, crap on a stick (as my heroine’s best friend is wont to say—oddly, a phrase I’ve managed to pick up myself since said friend announced it the first time). I just realized I’ve written two sex scenes with nary a condom in sight. It will be fairly easy to add to the first scene, but the second one’s in the shower—and I really like how I weaved it together. Crap.

Can’t think about it now. Must move on!

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I’m still eking out just over 1K/day, but that’s my personal minimum, and I’m happy to get it. I finished Chapter 3 (of 5, I think) and started Chapter 4. It’s going to run short; I have a variety of notes to myself about segues and descriptions. The main thing now is to get it done.

And tomorrow’s writing, I suspect, will be fun.