Monday, February 27, 2006

Ferociously Busy

Finished the latest draft of my new novel COBALT BLUE. And working nearly continuously (though I do sleep and eat) to get a line-edit done ASAP of another writer's novel. Wow!

At the same time, "literary lightning," a great rush of wonderful book-luck hit a friend of mine in the past week. So I took a multi-hour break to celebrate. She doesn't want her name used yet, because she's superstitious and feels it's too soon to talk about. But I think most of the nation will hear at some point not too far away.

And I want to highly recommend another excellent book, just out from a good buddy. Have a look at Dan Wakefield's THE HIGHJACKING OF JESUS. It tells exactly how the fundamentalist right-wing movement has used churches as a political base. Pretty juicy. You can click to Dan's website from my links list.

More later when the smoke clears.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Congratulations on finishing the edit! I just finished mine too... though I feel I need to let it sit a few days and do one more read-through. I think it might be time to send it on after that...

Any tips on how you "know" when it's done?

billie

Anonymous said...

Jeez, Billie, I've "known" mine was done several times. I now consider it done when it's sold. (I don't necessarily consider this admirable, I must say.)

I know when the draft is done when I've accomplished everything I set out to do.

The final test for me, though, is when other people fully get what I'm trying to send.

Congratulations on finishing yours. It's major and deserves lots of celebration. I mean to celebrate as soon as I get a moment. Still SO busy.

Anonymous said...

LOL - yeah, I've known mine was done a few times too... :) I actually think it's pretty practical to consider it done when it sells. I hadn't thought of it that way, but if one is aiming for publication, that's the finish line.

I'm sending the ms on to my agent early next week. His response will shed a certain light on things, for sure...!

On a related note, this was my random quote for today:

"Cease trying to work everything out with your minds, it will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a Revelation."
Eileen Caddy

Hmmm....

billie

J.B. Rowell said...

I like the idea of Literary Lightning - and hope someday I will be in the right place at the right time! I signed up for the NCWN spring conference in Raleigh and look forward to seeing you as part of the panel Peggy. Congrats on finishing,
Julia

Anonymous said...

May the right kind of lightning strike us all.

I hope you get good response from your agent, Billie.

See you at the NCWN conference, Julia.

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