Our New Baby

We Interrrupt This Novel...

...to write two werewolf stories.

I just came across a post on Deborah Ng's freelance writing blog avertising for werewolf stories for a book...$750-$1000 each. Now that's tempting! Combine temptation with a fine dose of procrastination, and you get creativity. My goal is to have the drafts of both stories done by tomorrow. This ought to be fun. I've been in Revision Land forever. It's fun, and a little strange, to actually *write* something.

Those darned revisions

So I've finally gotten back to working on my novel. Now I know why people say it takes them years to finish one. While the kids were at camp this past week, I got to sit down with some very nice caffeine and figure out all of the plot kinks that I inherited from revision number 2 (lesson for all of you budding mystery novelists--never think "wouldn't it be fun if the body was missing it's head?" It's not.)

My big problem with this revision? After having the novel sit for a while, I realized I couldn't remember the name of one of the main characters. I'm no pro, but I can take a hint. That's a bad sign.

I reworked the first seven chapters this morning, and there aren't any drastic changes I need to make, short of adding a chapter. I'm hoping I can have the darn thing done by September.

Isn't this the coolest Jello mold? Rachel Ray, eat your heart out.

All those aliens do is sit around and watch TV

It took a whole day to inflate these guys, and are they grateful, NOT! All they want to do is sit around and watch "Die Hard." They should go back to their own darn planet and let us drink our own darn American beer.

(All apologies to the brown one. He is a citizen of this planet.)

Rock On

Wiley had a great time at the Groton Center for the Arts Music Mayhem camp last week. This is the first time he's really gotten to play music with anybody else, and fortunately they could accomodate his accordion, ukelele, banjo and cello. The ukelele was a big hit--it's a great instrument, and the one we have is lime green.

They had two music sessions a day, and at the end of the week they had a performance and came home with a CD of their recorded music.

It was his birthday, so he got to name the band: Sedna.

So here's "Rock On" by Sedna:

http://squidhenge.googlepages.com/10RockOn.mp3