Completion!

I am SO happy! I finished the rough draft of my next book! I've been working on it since August of 2015, but there were setbacks. Two rejections of The Sin Bin which I had to rework through and a broken ankle. But I did it!

Now comes the hard part of editing it and handing it over to the "Red Pen"! After that, running it through two software programs in order to meet publishing standards.

Then to my mentor, whom I cherish. And then finding a publisher who wants it.

But wait? What's the title? I am stumped!!

Trying to Write

It's been a productive week. I've been working on the rough draft of my Holiday Cruise Romance book, which I haven't yet decided on a name. Last night while sleeping, I woke up knowing just how to end it. I came upstairs to my office and jotted down the ending. I'll finish it up tomorrow and then my self editing will begin. I will then turn it over to my two muses who have helped me with my other books.

My car was fixed to the tune of $$$$.$$. Yikes. It's a 2002, with only fifty-five thousand miles on it and it still had the original spark plugs. You see, where we live in Texas, everything is within a five mile or less radius. I don't have to go far at all. I drove more miles when I lived in Pennsylvania.

It is hot, but not Phoenix hot. My neighbors are ready to kill me, but I mowed the lawn at 7 am on Friday. The temperature was 77 and by the time I finished at 8, it had jumped up to 84. I sweated through two frog towels and had endless bottles of water. I know I could hire someone to do it, but I like the exercise since I'm on a constant health kick.

I don't understand how people can run or jog in the heat of the day when the 'feels like' temperature in 101 or higher. What are they trying to prove????

The scariest thing with heat like this, is when you think your a/c unit isn't working properly. That happened on Friday, when the upstairs went up to 88 and the unit was running like crazy. Husband to the rescue. He set the thermostat back to 73 and pressed "Hold" (it's an old thermostat) and sure enough by night, it had gone down to 73. After replacing a unit damaged by hail three years ago, they ain't cheap!

The Heat has Started!

It's summer here in Texas! We are to be in the 100's by the end of the week. That means I'll be spending a lot of time indoors, writing. Maybe I'll sneak out to the pool every now and then to cool off. That is, if it stops raining.....

Nothing is Easy

With all the travelling I've done, you would think I know how to plan a vacation. Ha! I need to organize the aftermath for when I get home. We got home on Sunday and I was off and running errands. Finally, I put my foot down on Thursday and said enough is enough! I need my writing time!

Sunday was grocery shopping. Monday, I mowed the lawn. Tuesday, I wrote for an hour. When my husband came home from work in a drenching rain storm, his baby had a flat tire. I called AAA and they came and put the spare on for him. On Wednesday, he took my car so I could take his baby to Goodyear to fix the tire, get an oil change and an alignment as if I didn't have anything else to do. He called me on my cell phone. He told me there was no answer on our landline and did I know the key fob for my car wouldn't lock and had I taken his baby to Goodyear yet? Really?

I told him to leave it unlocked. If someone wanted to steal it they could. No, I didn't know the phone didn't work and it's only 8:00 and I haven't even taken a shower.

Took the baby only driving ten  miles an hour in the pouring rain to Goodyear. I had a ride, so I came home and called Frontier on my cell phone. The wait time was 45 minutes. But they fixed it and all was fine. At two, Goodyear called and said the baby was done.

That left Thursday and Friday to write. I pray that next week is uneventful!