Pink Think: “Ya gots to work with what ya gots to work with.” – Stevie Wonder
Fun things I plan on doing today:
1. Call for Wicked tickets at 10. Some people have lined up since midnight. In the freezing weather. Folks, it’s just a musical! (Update: Four hours of busy signals later and a swamped website they had to take offline, and I find out Wicked is sold out. I have the feeling if I were one of those midnight campers, I could sell a ticket now for moogoo-bucks. Sigh. I shall have to console my eldest with the CD. Does anyone have tickets to the Salt Lake show?)
2. Sing the hippo song tonight at our ward talent show.
Things I am dragging my feet on:
1. Sing the hippo song tonight. What was I thinking? They’ll never ask me to sing a serious song in church ever again!
2. Write my portion of our annual Christmas letter. Why oh why is this so hard for me this year? Probably because I don’t want to tell people yet again, “I am writing novels.” I want to say, “I snagged myself an agent.” OR “I got a book published.” There’s still half-a-month left. Maybe it’s possible! I also will be getting a pink Jeep giftwrapped in the driveway this year I am sure.
Do people even read Christmas letters anymore, or does it go straight to the dart board?
What I am doing first:
1. Taking a break from Girl From Gurian, and revising Ghost Moon Night.
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When my first-reader Shirley asked me recently about my horror novel Ghost Moon Night, I unearthed it, read the first 30 pages I had revised from my last round of submissions, and thought, hey, this is pretty good.
Am I allowed to say these positive things about my writing?
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My daughter came into my bedroom and saw me typing like mad.
“What are you doing?” she asked.
“Improving Ghost Moon Night.”
“You mean, better than what it already was?” Her tone was, is that even possible?
She is such a sweetheart.
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