Whew. I haven't had a chance to write in DAYS, but I did manage to squeeze in some time here and there between work yesterday and at last tonight, reworking my prologue. Some feedback I'd gotten from folks made the point that I had a lot of flashbacks in my earlier chapters, so I took 2 of the flashbacks and slapped 'em into the prologue along with the two existing scenes. I think it works well.

Which brings me up to the current chapter -- 19. Have to revise that a bit, then it's chapter 20. It's been a while since I messed with it, so it'll take a little time getting up to speed. Hopefully by tomorrow night I'll be into it again, and maybe -- gasp -- have some sort of writing schedule again...

But hey, I just hit PAGE 400!!! Woo-hoo!!!

Gotta love the big, space-eating Courier font...

I also finished tweaking a brand-new story today, another Wannoshay story pulled from my novel and tweaked into story form. It's called "Back to the Old Neighborhood," and you can check out an excerpt if you're interested. It goes out tomorrow, for submission number 25. Yowza.

I guess I'd better get some work done on the Day Job stuff I've been avoiding. Ugh. Keep your fingers crossed for the 3-month contract position I'm vying for at a major pharma company here in the Raleigh area. Then I can quit the accursed paper route (see how quickly it went from the "way-cool" paper route to the "accursed" paper route?? I am so fickle). Later!

Today's Words:
Oh, let's say 1,000 and be done with it.

Novel Words:
86,200

Now Reading:
No time for that madness...

Now Playing:
"18," Moby

Today's Quote:
Taking a step back, Shontera almost returned to confront the soldiers. She could tell them about how Nonami saved her in the brewery. She could show them that the Wannoshay didn’t mean to blow up the brewery, how it had all been an accident. She could explain all she’d learned that day from Nonami, and maybe it would help.

But then she remembered Janna and their plans. They had to leave tonight. They were getting out, starting over.