I just finished writing Year of the Dog ! It had a massive plot hole that I had to fix which turned out to be more work than I expected. Here’s a snippet: “Hey, Auntie Nell.” He wrapped his arms around her, bussing her on the cheek and breathing in pikake flowers and shortbread cookies. And suddenly he was nine years old again, and her solid presence had made his chaotic world stable once more. “What are you doing here?” He usually took her to dinner on Wednesday nights, but today was Tuesday. The edges of her smile faltered a little before brightening right back up again. “What, I can’t visit my nephew?” She angled around him to enter his home. “Is this your new house? Looks lovely.” Which was a blatant lie, because the fixer-upper was barely livable, much less acceptable to a neat-freak like his aunt. She also left four matching pink and purple floral suitcases on the stoop behind her. Only then did Ashwin notice the cab driver standing slightly to the side of the walkway. “Can ...
Captain’s Log, Stardate 02.28.2005 Heather made a good point: Camy wrote: I worry that my friends like the story because they love me. It’s true, my friends would not hesitate to let me know if they thought my stuff was crap. They wouldn’t be my friends if they didn’t. My fear is that if something is borderline decent, they’d be more disposed to like it. They wouldn’t be dishonest, they’d be biased. Which is rather nice to know my friends are loyal, but my fear is that their love blinds them to faults in my writing. Or at least makes their vision fuzzy. Proposal writing is going slow. It’s so hard to come up with GMC for books I haven’t plotted out yet. I think I’ve finally got it. I still need to do the query letter and Market Comparison. My biggest problem is that it’s limited to 20 pages (which includes the query letter), but I just checked and my first chapter is 21 pages. Aargh! Diet: I was pretty good today, although I pigged out all weekend...