17 Apr 2008, Posted by Cat in News, 9 Comments. Tagged writing

the things we do

So I’m psyching myself up for another one of my big 3-day writing weekends, or in this instance, re-writing. I want to do a spit-polish on those 15,000 words I knocked out over the course of the weekend before last, as well as smooth over some anomalies currently sullying earlier sections of the text. And big weather. I need to add some big weather effects. When all this is done, the book will still not be ‘finished’, but it will be presentable enough to send out to the folks who have been insane  kind enough to volunteer as beta readers.

With actual local weather being so broody and gothic at the moment, what I would prefer to be doing is curling up on the couch with a pot of tea, a packet of Tim Tams and a stack of Cary Grant dvds. I fondly remember the days when I seemed to have time for such things. I think it was known as my youth…