Got a lovely compliment on the last day of teaching Show vs Tell for the Alexandra Centre. Two students, separately, asked if I was teaching any upcoming courses. Then, during the Q&A at the end, a third student asked the same thing in front of the group and suggested I let the class know if/when I had an upcoming course. I’d told them I was negotiating potential dates to teach “Novel Surgery,” and when that was finalized a day later and I informed them, I got two registrations within the next 24 hours. I took that as a compliment!
Final read-through
This week, I (almost!) finished the final read-through for Scents of Slavery. Sometimes the back-and-forthing can introduce new errors because you work in small chunks of text. Then, next week, I hope to have this one off to Laksa Media!
Finished first round edits
This week, I did the back-and-forthing for Scents of Slavery. That is, referencing all the notes I took while doing the first draft (and the continuity notes for all the books, like checking to see I never used the words “month” or “moon”), deciding in which scene each change needs to go, and incorporating them.
Joined Writing Buddies
My previous accountability group, the Accountability Confluence, was a face-to-face group that met in person monthly to review each other’s previous goals and set goals for the following month. But when the organizer moved, it kind of fell apart.
However, I have a new, on-line accountability group, Writing Buddies. It works the same way, only monthly and electronically. This is a small group of SFWA colleagues at various stages in their careers, both traditionally and independently published. Very interesting to get to know some of my fellow writers better, and to have that touch-base support.
Book 3 Done!
Yep.
Happy dance!
Now on to the edits!