First rewriting of Chapter One complete. Started on Chapter 2. Just 18 chapters to go...ugh. Ah, well, as Annie Lamott says, bird by bird - just take it bird by bird.
Also started a new design for a crazy candidate, that I kinda like. Ran out of ink before I could print it to see if it looks okay printed as it does on screen. Been resisting doing it - in spite of the fantastic design package I got for my B-Day (thank-you A. and J.!). Got to use Illustrator for the first time in ten years - my how that program has evolved! Hardly even knew where to start. I know what the program can do, but I no longer know how to make it do it. But I've become rather fixated on the rewrite and don't want to be bothered by anything else. Which is good, I suppose.
Also started on the Claritin as I was getting the wheezes from tree pollen and I hate feeling like I'm suffocating. Feel lucky I don't have really bad asthma like my sister does. Thought it would make my dry eye even worse, but my eyes were so sticky and irritated from allergies that it made them feel better! Just never know until you try.
Well, this was a quick break - on to Chapter 2 where my M.C.'s love interest appears. This was a total shock to me when I first wrote it - my M.C. was not going to have a lover. But Ashraf just appeared in the crowd and took over the scene and became an important part of the book. It's those unplanned moments where your unconscious mind takes over an creates things out of your unacknowledged psyche that make writing a novel so cool. And so puzzling.
Friday, April 18, 2008
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Congratulations!
I'm glad the claritin is helping. What a relief!
Love,
Shameless
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