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[apocalypsos]

It's been a nice quiet day.

I got all of the grammar and spelling mistakes and typos from the Heroine Addiction edit into the file, and now I'm going through the content edit bit by bit by bit. It's a page-and-a-half-long list, but a lot of it is "add a couple lines of dialogue here" or "add a few more sentences of description there." So hopefully I can get a good chunk of it done tonight and work on the rest in the next couple of days.

I just feel like I should get ONE of these manuscripts done, you know? The sooner I can send something I am currently happy with to the agent-shaped person, the happier I will be. And I think not having one done is distracting the hell of me in terms of trying to get my Yuletide done. Trust me, I have a prompt I should be able to pull off in my sleep, so the fact that I've been blocked on it all weekend has got to be me needing to get my priorities straight.

It's been a good day for editing, though. Rainy and gross and nowhere to go, so here I am on the couch with the electric blanket and a cup of hot tea.

I also took down the paper I've had on the living room wall for a couple of months for story notes and whatnot so that I can replace it with a new one for the start of 2010. I signed up for a 250k pledge for getyourwordsout (smaller than this year's pledge, still within my abilities without the stress of being jobless to screw up my head), so the plan is to have four to six stories to work on. So far, the list looks like:

1. This Way To The Egress
2. Gilded
3. The Hollow Girl
4. Nearly Departed
5. The untitled gay paranormal romance
6. Aaaaand more Heroine Addiction 'verse. Maybe.

Okay, back to the editing.

*cracks knuckles*

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[elusive-life-77.livejournal.com]

Can you tell me some more about getyourwordsout? I think it sounds like something I want to try...