La Vie Boheme

It has been exactly six

It has been exactly six weeks since I finished The Exile's Daughter. I think I'm going to start reading it this morning, and see what I think--my first readthrough since finishing the draft. A week from today I should start hearing from the other folks who've read the first draft. I'm little scared (well, excited AND scared). I feel ready to deal with this again. Ready to dive in and fix it.

I'm seriously considering taking a break from constant short story submissions, because it's been making me a little crazy. Right now I have three that have been in circulation. I still believe in all three. I'm debating sitting on them for a little bit (maybe until I have draft two of Exile whipped into shape) and then see how I feel about it. And definitely, DEFINITELY, anything new I write between now and say... January 1st will not be written with publication in mind. Sometime this week I'm going to sit down and figure out what I do want to focus on the last part of this year. Structure, maybe. Or maybe just trying to write something uncharacteristic of me.

Still thinking. For now, I'm grabbing a notebook and settling in to read my novel.