Sunday, September 14, 2014

Sunday Update - Week 37

Good morning!  How the heck are all y'all?

Well, I'm sore.  And stiff.  But satisfied.  Yesterday, I got a wild hair to wash the deck.  Over the summer, it got all mildew stained plus had this green patina going on.  So I took to the internet, found a place where they had suggestions for cleaning mildew off a wood deck, and I took their suggestion (partly).  I mixed up some vinegar (1 qt) and dishsoap (1/4 c) and water (3 qts).  Using a big broom and a little scrub brush, I applied it to the deck, then waited fifteen minutes.  Then I used the same mixture to scrub it all down.  It isn't totally spotless, but it does look way better.  Hence, stiff and sore but satisfied.

In other news, I finished Bloodflow's rewrite.  I wrote like a mad woman for like 5 hours straight on Wednesday - putting out like 6300 words.  That left me with a total of 110488.  Now I need to tweeze and polish this.  Friday I snipped out an irrelevant scene leaving me with 109K.  It's kinda top heavy, but I can make it awesome.

Also, I've got WIOH on the Kindle and I've been going through line by line looking for errors I may have created during the tweezing phase.  Yup, they're there.  I'm about a third of the way through - jotting the flaws in a notebook so I can fix them later.  Ugh, there are way more than I expected.  

Otherwise, I haven't been doing much of anything else.  I planned on making cookies.  That didn't happen.  I planned on vacuuming and dusting.  Nope.  I did get the fridge washed out, though, so that's something else. 

What have you been up to this week?  Anything exciting on tap for next week?

3 comments:

  1. When you finish your pass on WIOH, shoot it to me. I'll check it for typos.

    I finished setting up the wiki/series bible for my Moonstruck series. Now I can revise BLUE MOON. Or will once I get revisions of COWGIRL"S LITTLE SECRET done. I got that letter Friday afternoon and I'm getting a call from my editor tomorrow afternoon. Lawyer Guy is coming home early to handle Sprout Duty so I can talk uniterrupted. :) He's a good guy!

    I also squeezed in some outside reading. Started and finished FESTIVE IN DEATH. REALLY enjoy it! It was a kinder, gentler In Death book, but very satisfying. Then I read the debut release from one of my chapter mates. It was...fun, but required suspending all belief.

    Oh, and I cut my hair. Yes, I said *I* cut it. My hairdresser packed up and moved to Florida with a sugar daddy and my hair hasn't been cut since May. It was drivin' me nuts and I figured I couldn't butcher it any worse than a walk-in salon. LG asked if I'd stopped in to get it cut on my way to meet him and his office mate for dim sum. (Did I mention he's a keeper?) Anyway, I like the cut so now I don't have to worry about it.

    As mentioned, phone call from editor, then lots and lots and lots of work! And Sprout time. Crossing fingers a spot opens up at their preferred day care in October. Not sure I can last until January. *headdesk*

    Have a great week!

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  2. Hooray for finishing your rewrite! Wishing you great success in finding all the typos. They're sneaky little monsters.

    You reminded me I need to repaint my porches and steps. I have a feeling it won't happen this year. Again. ;-)

    I'm still filling in holes in my book. Once that's done, I'll (desperately) need to start chopping out redundancies. (The nonfiction version of killing my darlings.)

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  3. Busy weekend huh? I had visitors, my sister & step-mum and it was lovely to see them, especially as my flat now looks clean cos I did the usual domestic stuff in honour of their visit. On Sunday I finished off the quilt top I was making, made the binding & basted it. Now its ready for the quilting. Nice to have a productive weekend, but now its back to work ... groan.

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