Firstly, I want to thank all of you for your kind and encouraging words. I’d also like to thank Ivy (swankivy) and Mandy (mandywriter) for uplifting me when I was feeling kind of very down on myself and my writing.

Secondly, I wanted to ask: is it normal, after getting a rejection, especially a personalized one, to still want to shelve the current project(s) for a few days and maybe laze around, eating Edy’s Dibs and chocolate chip cookie dough? I really feel like doing that right now, although my characters are kind of giving me impatient glares. I haven’t worked on my current WIP in days, and they’re getting antsy. *sigh*

I just don’t feel motivated to get to work. I mean, my mind is ready to work, but physically, I just want to curl up and I don’t even know if I feel like reading or not.

I mean, some of the stuff I read–I’m like “okay, I know I can get published if this can,” not necessarily meaning the book I was reading at the time was BAD or anything. But then, there are the Megan McCaffertys and Meg Cabots and Sarah Dessens and Stephenie Meyers who blow my mind with everything they write, and I think to myself “how DARE you think you have the talent/calibur/guts to be like those women?”

I don’t know. I just don’t know.

So tell me, is this normal? Or am I the freak I suspected I was?

(Originally published at Anywhere Is…)

It’s that time of the month again!

Let’s check in and see how I did with my February Goals:

25,000 words
Cut at least one chapter from MAJOR REVISION PROJECT.
Read two new books.

So, I read like eight new books, managed to bump my word total up to over 28,000 in UNTITLED II, and I cut way more than one chapter from the MAJOR REVISION PROJECT.

I exceeded. YAY!

So, for March:

32,000 words.
Read two new books.

Anything else? Feel free to comment and let me know!!

I have to pee. So ’til later!

The BECOMING ME revisions are DONE!!

I just shipped it off to crit partner. I’m sure I’ll have much work to do once she’s done with it.

I cut out so much, including entire chapters. I probably eliminated about 75 pages of unnecessary gobbledy-gook. Holy banana, I never thought I’d work on that one again.

Okay, I’m off to bed. The munchkin is back in town, and I need my energy to deal with him.

Now that I’m done with BM for the time being, I can get back to work on UNTITLED II and keep formulating ideas for other UNTITLEDs that keep popping into my head.

Good night/morning.

(Originally published at Anywhere Is…)