Best Beach Read -- Part Two
Everyone's back from Dallas now, and all my writer friends are busily getting their partials and full manuscripts ready to submit to the agents and editors who requested them.
As for me, I'll be submitting my manuscript to Mills and Boon, which means I'll have to make significant cuts to change it from a single title novel to a category romance. It's a challenge which I'm up to, and definitely looking forward to. I'm also working diligently with my web site designer to launch the wonderful new website, FictionOverForty.com. Stay tuned for that -- we hope to have the site up and running by the end of the summer.
My writing has dominated my life for the past three years, and happily so, but lately (cliché alert) the chickens have been coming home to roost. Learning craft while writing and revising two novels has been very time consuming (and wonderful), but because of my commitment to my writing, I've let clutter build up in my house. I can't stand it any more.
While it's true the Board of Health won't be coming after me any time soon, I do like a neat and organized dwelling. Therefore, for the rest of the summer, I'm going to slow down on my work of writing, and speed up on the work of my house. Today I spent almost the whole day decluttering and reorganizing my writing space (a lovely addition we recently built onto the laundry room behind the kitchen). I have about two more days to go before this task is finished to my satisfaction, but I've decided I need a break! Call it the pause that refreshes...
So, it's to the beach tomorrow. A few weeks ago, I'd hoped to take a beach day to read my own book, but never managed to do that. So, tomorrow...I'm going to the beach, but since I've decided to take some down time and write less for the rest of the summer, I'm going to reach someone else's book. Jody Picoult's Picture Perfect. I'm about sixty pages into this novel, and I love it. Jody is a fabulous writer.
I hope you're having a good summer -- rest, relaxation, and READING, be it on the sand by the ocean, on the grassy bank of a river or gurgling stream, or on the shores of a lake, on a lounge chair by a pool, or in a hammock or other reclining device in your own back yard.
xo, ciao,
Rita
As for me, I'll be submitting my manuscript to Mills and Boon, which means I'll have to make significant cuts to change it from a single title novel to a category romance. It's a challenge which I'm up to, and definitely looking forward to. I'm also working diligently with my web site designer to launch the wonderful new website, FictionOverForty.com. Stay tuned for that -- we hope to have the site up and running by the end of the summer.
My writing has dominated my life for the past three years, and happily so, but lately (cliché alert) the chickens have been coming home to roost. Learning craft while writing and revising two novels has been very time consuming (and wonderful), but because of my commitment to my writing, I've let clutter build up in my house. I can't stand it any more.
While it's true the Board of Health won't be coming after me any time soon, I do like a neat and organized dwelling. Therefore, for the rest of the summer, I'm going to slow down on my work of writing, and speed up on the work of my house. Today I spent almost the whole day decluttering and reorganizing my writing space (a lovely addition we recently built onto the laundry room behind the kitchen). I have about two more days to go before this task is finished to my satisfaction, but I've decided I need a break! Call it the pause that refreshes...
So, it's to the beach tomorrow. A few weeks ago, I'd hoped to take a beach day to read my own book, but never managed to do that. So, tomorrow...I'm going to the beach, but since I've decided to take some down time and write less for the rest of the summer, I'm going to reach someone else's book. Jody Picoult's Picture Perfect. I'm about sixty pages into this novel, and I love it. Jody is a fabulous writer.
I hope you're having a good summer -- rest, relaxation, and READING, be it on the sand by the ocean, on the grassy bank of a river or gurgling stream, or on the shores of a lake, on a lounge chair by a pool, or in a hammock or other reclining device in your own back yard.
xo, ciao,
Rita
posted by Rita Horiguchi, writing as Rita St. Claire at
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