tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20345174.post-1164727484238494572006-11-28T10:24:00.000-05:002006-11-28T10:24:44.273-05:00It’s the end of November. Been a long year. I’m a bit scared to go back to reading our entries from the beginning of the year when we young and naïve and the world looked so bright and cheerful. On my lengthy ‘to do’ list besides ‘blow off the driveway’—which Jenny wisely did not make a snarky comment about yesterday—is ‘blog document’ which is where I have to take all our entries for the year and finish putting them in one document. I know it’s going to be over 200,000 words. <br />Right now, also on my to do list is ‘blog 2007’. I’ve got 26 entries to write and would like to have most of them done before the end of the year. So that’s a lot of work.<br />When I was in Chesapeake for that conference I found myself at the dinner the night before we presented actually starting to bitch about book tour. I stopped myself and apologized. I know I swore I would never do that and I did catch it.<br />I did the major re-write of Chasing and now am doing another run through on the screen. Then will print it out and break out the red pen. Plus, I have to do something I’ve never done before on one of my books: do a motif and symbol run through. See, even I can learn. I’ve got a list, like ‘garden’, ‘landlord’, ‘sex’ (don’t ask); ‘letter’, etc. that I have to make sure are evenly layered through the book.<br />FYI in January, (26th to be exact) I’m co-hosting a one day workshop in beautiful Beaufort, SC on writing as part of the Iodine Literary Conference http://www.eatgoodbread.com/iodine.html<br />The other presenter is agent Nadia Cornier of EZ-pass fame. I’ll talk about writing from a writer’s POV and she’ll talk about things from an agent’s POV. I’ll be right of course.<br />BTW, Beaufort is very pretty. The Big Chill was filmed there. Even better, I can drive up there in an hour. No flying.<br />Jenny wanted to rename a character in Agnes so I suggested Dorsai Tyler.<br />Also on the ‘to do’ list is ‘Sanctuary Proposal’, ‘rewrite Who Dares Wins’ and ‘Hannah to the vet’. The fun never stops.Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17030209378371995304noreply@blogger.com