Erulisse Dances

 It's the 27th of September, only a few days left in this transitive month. It starts out with heat and the State Fair - crowds, food on a stick, and my BFF Sharon visiting for another year, and ends up with cooler days, sometimes clouds and rain, and even a snowflake or two. But not this year!



Admittedly, last weekend was cold. At Ren Fest over the weekend we were wrapped up in our cloaks and seeking out patches of sun every time we could. But it warmed into the low 60's and the day itself was beautiful - clear blue skies and just a light breeze.
( autumn photos and thoughts of harvest below )

I have a self-imposed deadline of Wednesday night to have my o-fic complete, edited, and ready to send to the publisher. I'm going a bit crazy because my time to work on this has been minimal. I can't work on it at night, even though it is G-rated, because I get interrupted by DH all the time. He doesn't see why there is a problem with him coming downstairs to tell me what's on TV or comment on something that occurred to him. I'm going crazy because I can't get more than 15 minutes in a row that isn't interrupted so I can't bury myself in my fictional world because I keep getting dredged back into this one. I'll work instead of read at the coffee shop this morning and then continue at the store. I need to get this done, and I need to seriously edit, so Wednesday's studio day will be spent doing that. I really want to at least present this to the publisher. Whether it gets accepted or not ... it's doing something like this - branching out from fanfic where I can only post online to something that may be in print - it's a new frontier for me and I like the challenge. Oh joy, I'm living in a pressure cooker again - LOL.

( pressure cooker and webs below the cut )

 So, DH and I went to that little Gem & Mineral show on Sunday and dreams of equipment have once again sprouted in DH's head. He has wanted to play with rocks for a long time. ( Read more... )

So, when I arrived at the shop yesterday I was determined to rework my "Out of the Box" story completely and spent the day thinking about it and reading the wonderful link that a friend had sent to me on writing murder mysteries (much of which I already knew, but some of which was a wonderful relevation). Last night I began the actual re-write and, although I'm only three pages in to what had already been nine pages, I'm feeling much better about where the story is going.



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