Thursday we had the cleaners in. This is good but always cumbersome as we have to keep the dogs out of their way, and now Wisp as well, which is harder (you’ve heard about herding cats?). I figured this would chop up my day so I scheduled my blogging, email and other low-intensity work for that day rather than Friday. That proved fortunate.
Plushie has gotten the habit of climbing on my legs as soon as I go to sleep. This woke me up and I slipped into the mental death spiral (“Am I going to sleep? What if I don’t go to sleep? Am I starting to nod off? Should I give up and get up?”) which makes it impossible to sleep.
Sunday we took Wisp in because she keeps having incidents where she sits, breathing fast and not wanting to move. The vet cleared her of any serious conditions but we’ll probably have to go back for more tests. Anyway I think she had another incident Wednesday night which left me listening to her breathing which didn’t help me sleep any better.
All of which left my brain fried Thursday so I wouldn’t have gotten anything done if I’d tried. Waiting for Friday proved much more satisfactory.
To get the little stuff out the way, I had an article on Carrboro’s plans to win an award for being a bicycle-friendly city. I also had three pieces on Atomic Junk Shop: one on DC’s Deadman, good stories (mostly) from Silver Age series I don’t like, and the first meeting between Batman and DC’s WW II hero Sgt. Rock (Neal Adams cover).
I watched the usual assortment of films for Jekyll and Hyde but didn’t get much writing done on the book. And I made real progress on the final draft of Southern Discomfort.
I’ve been working through a printed copy of the previous draft, plus a copy with suggestions from my friend and beta-reader Maggie. Along with the stuff Maggie spotted I looked for errors in names, directions, spellings, reuses of certain words I’m too fond of. I’ve now gone through both documents though I haven’t made all the corrections in the final draft yet. I’m within fifty pages of the finish.
After that, I finish going over the corrected manuscript, looking for any new errors I introduced while fixing old errors. I’ve found a couple such as a reference to driving through Georgie instead of Georgia. Once I’ve made that final pass I’m done. Then it’s a matter of waiting on my cover artist.
It’s not done but I’ve definitely reached the beginning of the end, so yay.
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