Robynettely

Due to changing management and something to do with how unused holidays appear on balance sheets, some of my US colleagues are complaining about having to use up nine weeks of vacation time by the end of the year, or not being able to come up with something to use those last 53 days, etc.(Canadian employees were never allowed to carry over more than ten days of vacation into the next year so I've never had this problem.) I keep wanting to yell at them, "You could go to Clarion!" But they just don't get it.

First Draft “Limering”. Around 36,000 words. I really would like to write something else now, like this short story that’s in my head. Editing “Wind/Water/Salt”. Still working on the don’t look back Draft 2 (the same approach as draft one, actually). I hope it starts to get shorter rather than longer soon! I didn’t really remove that many words, but with this draft I did get rid of a lot of chapters. I would have got more done, but for that trip to Mexico. Stupid day job! I caught myself doing a very bad thing, and that was trying to make the words there work, rather than deleting them because they made no sense anymore. Deleting is hard! But I wrote about 1800 words of Chapter 12, and moved a whole bunch of stuff, so I’d guess I’m about 1/3 through the second draft. Even though this is what I’m thinking of as the “plot/gross story structure” draft, it’s getting a lot more tension and action, which is good. Connecting  -- Circulating -- ...