The other near-the-end-of-the-first-draft fear.
What on earth am I going to do when I finish this draft? I'm a firm believer that things need at minimum a couple of weeks' cooling off period. Which is exactly how much time I have off from work. Which is bad news bears, because I'm going to make myself crazy feeling like I'm supposed to be writing something.
Now that Bad Girls Don't Die is out of copyedits (as of today! yay! and the notes were really minimal, so we did them over the phone), I don't have rushed revisions of that to work on. I could rush back into AW, the project I dumped to work on Project X. Or I could spend two blissful weeks sewing.
I'm feeling a little lost, to be honest. I guess I'll work it out when I get there. There's always laundry to do.
Now that Bad Girls Don't Die is out of copyedits (as of today! yay! and the notes were really minimal, so we did them over the phone), I don't have rushed revisions of that to work on. I could rush back into AW, the project I dumped to work on Project X. Or I could spend two blissful weeks sewing.
I'm feeling a little lost, to be honest. I guess I'll work it out when I get there. There's always laundry to do.
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posted by Katie Alender at
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Heck - I've got laundry too if you get bored....
Or you could come and do my edits. : )
Katie-
I strongly recommend a drunken stupor. Perhaps (at least) an eight day drunken stupor. You see, Katie, when you're drunk (and I admit it doesn't take much to get me there. A whiff of the cork can do the job) you become a totally different person. You should give this person a chance to write.
You never know. You might actually like what plastered Katie has to say (hiccup!).
Hey, you could go visit family!
Oh if only -- if ONLY! Time once hung heavy on my hands, and now I just wish I could have bottled it up back then. I seem to run through it so fast now, and I never manage to use it efficiently.
And the idea of spending a few --blissful-- weeks sewing! The only time I've ever sewn, bliss never figured into the equation.
Why don't you come to Scotland and teach me how to sew? (Smile -- Even you don't have that kind of time, Katie!)
Whatever you do, relax and enjoy the break. There will be time enough to stress over another project in the future!
I so know this to be true...
First of all, big congratulations on being done with copy edits!!! Those things are both great and awful (or as I told my editor, I both hate them and want to marry them). Congratulations on being that much closer to publication!
Second of all, follow your heart, little Katie. If you want to work on the book, do. If you want to sew, do. If you want to watch every chick flick you can find for the next week or more, do.
Don't worry about what you're "supposed" to do. Bah. You're the boss of you. Follow your heart. You'll know what's right when you feel it.
whining. HEE :D I can so relate, girlie. I say SEW with your time off! I've got 9 days coming up at the end of this week too and that's my plan. Just unadulterated, sew whatever I feel like, sewing. (Well, whatever I feel like that counts as Easter dress for Lu and Wardrobe Sewing for me. But you know, in theory and all.)
I've missed ya on the blog! :)
I know how you feel. One feels really lost after finishing a draft. But I agree with tom in vegas...have a few good drinks, chill out, pat yourself on the back.
Well, if you have a hankering to make some baby blankets....you could check my blog for more info. ;)
Eileen, considering that I began doing laundry the day I wrote that post and wrapped it up two days ago, I would say, no thank you. Please wash your own socks. My ten-day laundstravaganza was plenty. However, send your edits over. I feel what's missing is a killer clown.
Tom, I am always up for a drunken stupor. And it's true, I do become a totally different person. A psycho. So I am told. Like that chick on "Heroes" who has Normal Self and Evil Self.
4Horses, this is alas impossible since I have other family descending upon my house even as I type this (well, at this point they are probably descending upon LAX).
Mary, I'd love to come teach you how to sew! And see what's hot in the Scottish fabric stores.
Holly, great advice! I know I'll happily slave over something new before long (or revisions of something not new).
Robin, thank you! It was a big step for me, because that's where the book was last year when we did a u-turn. Nice to be past that particular milestone. So far, my heart is saying, "Hello! You're still not done with the book, so don't even think about going to the sewing room!"
Jemima, I am definitely planning to sew my little heart out... next week! I even went to the fabric store and bought a couple of things to work on. Thanks for missing me. :-)
Emma, welcome! I think you and Tom are quite right... before I jump into sewing, I'll jump into a Bloody Mary or two.
Amber, I saw that! I'll have to ask you more questions next week. I'm afraid I don't know enough about baby blankets to even know what fabric they are, etc. I've heard of Project Linus, where people make quilts for traumatized kids, but it never occurred to me that they were in need of just the very basics!
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