On the Road

Something about being in a rider in a car, a cocoon tooling along at 70 mph, frees the mind, and one gets all sorts of ideas, remembers things to do, and perks up mentally. Take advantage of this by keeping a writing tool and some paper handy. You'll be amazed at what you can come up with. In my case, it was 17 plot points that need to be addressed to finish Festival Madness, and 5 plot points that need to be retrofitted into the first 1/3 of the book. So this is serious plotting. Now I need to decide on the rest of the scenes, and the remaining portion will practically write itself. Well, maybe. It is good to have a roadmap, and I think everything is finally down on paper. Until now, I've relied on memory and a few notes.

Last night and today I reread what I have so far. A few inconsistencies appeared, which have been duly noted and flagged. Overall, I am not unhappy with the results.

One more rejection for Promiscuous Mode. I will repeat 100 times: do not fall for agents who say they welcome "quirky" because whatever I have is NOT their definition of "quirky." I had an email from the agent I sent World of Mirrors to apologizing for not being able to read it before July 10th. Promiscuous Mode has been sitting patiently since April, waiting for a reading. I am seriously starting to wonder if I will grow old and die before I am published. I have even had fleeting thoughts of bagging it, but these obviously aren't serious since I'm doing research for the "California in the 20's" book. Between now and December finish the book I"m writing, put it aside and start the new book. Continue to flog the two, soon to be three existing books. Hey, if I get a three book contract, I'll already have three books.

Dreaming on, and of course, sucking it up,

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