Day 14: Light, if Disorganized

I wrote a 'connective tissue' scene today which serves as a buildup to a very important scene. It was easier than I thought to write, and I had my 3.75 pages done very quickly. I think the frequency of my writing is making the ideas come faster. I went back and read yesterday's sex scene, and it's still good, I think; it portrays how manipulative one of the characters is, and how putty-like the other one is.

I took some time yesterday and today to plan and order books for a couple of the classes I'm teaching this fall; I need to not totally forget that, while I *am* on vacation, I'm still being paid to have my sh*t together for next semester. Tonight I need to get a manuscript copy of my book of poems (unpublished) so I can send it out to a couple of free contests this month. I'm done paying for contests; I'm done paying for a lot of stuff since my husband and I are basically broke. Tomorrow I'll be taking a break from the novel to go into school and grade placement tests; it's only one day a week, and it's a little extra cash, which we could really use. So, my next post will be on Friday; I'm actually really excited to get back to writing on Friday, since I'll be working on a major turning-point scene; the one where we find out What Is Going To Happen.

I have a number of folks (including my husband, Nicole, Sue, Nate and Dillon) who I've said I want to send sections of the novel to, and I do, but I need to get over one more hump first; I still have some floating material from an earlier draft that I'll be placing in this chapter (Chapter 4), and I want to do that before I send it out. By then, it'll be about a hundred pages worth (I hit 95 today), and I'll happily send however much they want (I know Kevin and Nate only want one chapter at a time, but I'd be willing to bet Nicole and Sue, who are monster speed readers, will probably just want the whole thing). It'll be interesting to have people read it, since the only person who has continues to be a literary agent, which is so backwards as to be almost absurd. Anyway, happy Thursday tomorrow, and I'll be back Friday.