The best of intentions and all that…
I kept meaning to write last week, but I didn’t have anything to report, really, and I was crazybusy with my new job, so it just… never happened. (I’m temping now. Working outside the home takes away from writing time, which is sad, but it brings in extra cash, for which I am grateful. Not that we need the money, but I needed more to do in a day and extra is always nice.)
However, this past Monday (March 1) was the beginning of National Novel Editing Month (NaNoEdMo), so I started a read-through of Pointillism, the novel I wrote during NaNoWriMo 2009. I made notes in the margins and tracked my changes (some of Word’s features are quite useful; these are two of them). Next I’m going to add in the comments my friend Chelsea made when she read through the first draft. Then I’ll copy my changes into my yWriter file and start working on the pacing, using the notes I have in the margins. I also have some research I need to do. (Easy stuff: I need to locate a gymnastics club that will allow me to come watch practice.) This afternoon at my writers’ group, I’m going to see how much of the commentary I can get melded together and how many changes I can get made.
I am still hoping to get We’ll Write You an Opera You Can’t Refuse finished. I’m babysitting tonight, so once the kids are in bed I will hopefully have time and be in the right headspace to actually get some writing done. You never know – I might hit a groove! 
And that is what I have been up to lately and what I hope to accomplish in the next little while. I may or may not get back to the read-through of Tumbling before the end of the month, too. We shall have to see!
