Down to Work
Now that I am back, I should get down to work, shouldn’t I?
I made a plan/goals chart before I left. So far, I’m a bit off track. How sad is that? The plan is only a month old and I’m already veering off. Then again, it is only August 4th. There is still time to reign this month in. Besides, I think my plan for the month was to do some reading and research–stuff that is easy to do when family is around and fun is abound. Only problem is that one of my critique partners came up with a nit pick that immediately morphed into this FANTASTIC black moment for my story. That means, I have to write it! Because I haven’t written it, because it didn’t exist before her critique–I had something lame instead. That big black moment was just another one of those small details I didn’t really think about when I wrote this story. So what this all means is that she is waiting for me to write this ‘moment’ because it is what happens next in the story so that she can critique it. And I am slowing everything down in our critique exchange. That means I have to put my head back in the game.
In other news, I finally got my crappy query chomped on by the Query Shark. She was actually pretty gentle and I LOVE her version. She rocks. I knew my query wasn’t so great. I wrote it before I beta tested Molli’s e-book chapter on queries. In other words, I was still pretty lost. Anyway, I am very grateful to Shark for doing the critique. Thank you!
I have three people waiting for me to critique their chapters. I better get on it!
Cheerio folks! 
