It's away! Got the first chapter and the brand-new outline for the romance in the mail today, and it's gone, baby, gone! I feel really good about it, as does my cheerleader/editor/toughest critic Lizzie. She really helped me whip it into better shape faster than I could've done it on my own (if I even could've done it on my own, which I doubt).

And now that it's gone ("It's away!" of course is a reference to the original Star Wars, as they're bombing the Death Star, as is the quote that's the title of this entry... as if I needed to tell y'all that!), I'm getting very pumped up about finishing the Wannoshay novel.

I sat down today and looked over my notes on the first 2/3 of the book, wrote a whole bunch of ideas, and I was going to read some more of it tonight, but time got away from me (okay, I was surfing!). There's so much cool stuff I can do with this book. As soon as I get "reacquainted" with it again (it's hard to shift gears sometimes from one project to the other, but I'm getting better at it!), I'm hoping to really speed through the drafting and have it all done soon. As in a couple weeks soon. As in before Trinoc-con, which starts Oct. 4th. We shall see...

Oh yeah, over in the Tangent newsgroup there's been an interesting discussion about mainstream fiction as opposed to genre fiction. I made a comment about some Cormac McCarthy novels I'd read a couple years ago when I was in my literary phase, and I have to admit, none of the books I read back then excited me as much as Tim Powers' Last Call or China Mieville's Perdido Street Station or Neil Gaiman's American Gods. I think that says something about where my REAL interests lie. Later!

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