What friends are for...

Last night I got all of my internet stuff squared away, grabbed my notes, and sat down at the computer for an hour of editting before bed. I had planned everything, but as an hour began to tick by I just drew a complete blank. The words that were filling my head were not those of chapter 25.

Nope, not even close.

Instead, I found myself thinking of all the friendships I had made over the years. From when I was just three years old, to now at twenty-four(twenty-five in May, but who's counting?). So many people flash through your life as you grow up and grow old, and they all leave their impressions on who you are. So here are the words from last night. This is my tribute to those who have touched my life and helped me become who I am now. May you continue to help shape me and my dreams.

Thank you


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When you’re scarred and broken, and you don’t know where the pieces fall, and you feel like it’s you against the world, a friend is everything. When you feel like an outsider with your own family and you’ve shown a mask to the world so long that it has become who you are, a friend feels like a lifeline. They let you live in the moment, and help you through the rough times whether they know it or not. They make you laugh when you want to cry, and draw you out into the company of others when all you want to do is shut out the world. They are healers and guardians, brothers and sisters. They are the family bound by richer means then blood. No matter what may come, they stand with you as you stand with them.

There have been times in my life when my friends held me together and picked up the pieces when I couldn’t. They held me when I wept from the pain of growing up, and reminded me that someday it would all be worth it. Their strength helped me through the worst points in my life, and I have no doubt that they would do it again.

So to those of you who think I’ve forgotten what you’ve done, who think I turned my back on the years we’ve had together. To those of you who believe I’ve move on and away from the friendships of my past; I remember.

You have given me so much and have helped me become who I am today. I may not have said it then, but I’m saying it now. Thank you, for everything.

Thank you.


~Sun and Moon

Promoting....its a nessecary thing

Well, I'll be working on cleaning up my rough cover idea tonight and giving it color on my next day off. Hopefully I'll have it loaded and ready to go not long after because that's also the day I'll be getting my sorry butt on the authonomy forums. Its time and past time to start promoting my book so it can hit the editor's desk sometime in the near future.

Wish me luck, I'll probably need it.

My other project is to start blogging a little more and get my rear in gear on book one so I can have a brief break before plunging into book two. The goal is to be done with book one, and starting book two by my birthday. I'm still getting bomboarded with snippets from book two and I fully expect to get caught scribbling away at my register any day now....

Anyway, I do have to work today, so I'm off to do some more edits on chapter twenty-five. I need to trim away at least five pages and it's been slow going.

Onward! XD


~Sun and Moon

New artwork and dirty dishes

I can't win, I swear I can't.

Today I got plenty done, honest. I just didn't get any house work done is all. I have a lovely new piece of artwork to hang and ponder about whether or not it's truely finished, but my kitchen sink is full of dishes and I have yet to take out the trash. Oh well, I guess I'll be doing all that when I get home from work tomorrow.

In other news, I finally finished my edits on chapter 24. It only took me...a week? It feels like MUCH longer then that. I'll have to check later.

I have gotten chapters 11-20 of my book back from that one editting friend of mine and she loved it(insert happy dance here). She says I'm getting better at catching my own mistakes and she barely marked up any of it. Unfortunantly I don't have the next ten ready for her and I won't for some time. I looked them over earlier and had to resist the urge to....do something, lol.

Well, I'd have more to say, but it's waaay past my bedtime and I need sleep in a bad way. G'night!

~Sun and Moon

Eureka!

I have a cover idea! Finally!

If you've stopped by my authonomy page, you'll notice I have one of their generic covers posted for my book. Well, thats about to change. After sketching one thumbnail(a little picture about the size of your thumb) after another, I finally know what I want to put as my cover. I know it probably won't stay if it gets published, but it'll work for now and thats what I need.

In other news, I handed chapters 11-20 to the first of my editting friends two days ago. She hasn't started them yet, but she thinks she can have them done by this time next week. Seeing as I'm just now starting on the rewrite for chapter twenty-four, I'm not about to rush her.

I'm also trying to rework my pitch and get a small pile of artwork done. Hopefully I'll finish up this book by my birthday and be starting in on Book Two by June. I've been itching to start a new manuscript and I already have a few scenes scribbled down in my various notebooks.

Well, on that note I better get to work. Chapter 24 is waiting for me and it's not going to be an easy one. Besides, I went to the library earlier and now there's a stack of books just begging to be read....

Hm...maybe I'll work on those edits tonight instead.


~Sun and Moon

Aaaand they are live!

Well, there isn't any cover art and the pitch is a little shakey, but the first ten chapters of my book are now availible for your veiwing pleasure at http://www.authonomy.com/books/30728/new-beginnings/

Please let me know what you think right here on Blogger, ok? You won't be able to post comments on Authonomy unless you're a member of the site.

That's all for me, folks. I'd have more to say, but I have three chapters to clean up for my two editor friends and another one awaiting a rewrite. Between that and work tomorrow, I think I'll call it a night.


~Sun and Moon

If it's not one thing, it's another

I am about ready to pull my hair out. Seriously.

Here's why...


I've gotten the first ten chapters of my book back from both of my editting friends. I talked to them, and then went through the chapters and fixed all the errors they had marked. I even fixed a few that Microsoft Works pointed out, only to realize I had a million dialogue tags that needed to be fixed. So I grumbled and sat down to get them done. I got half of them squared away this morning and then stopped to shower and head off to work. When I got back home, I did a little more work and watched my favorite TV show before returning to the computer to finish the last bit.

They're done now, but guess what? I have no cover art to put up when I post the chapters to Authonomy.

-sigh-

So instead of posting my chapters today and getting up tomorrow to find a few comments on said work(I had hoped), I get to plot out a rough sketch in the morning and pray the end result won't send people running to another book instead.


I also need to skim chapters 11-20 and make sure they don't have any major errors. Then it'll be time to see if I have enough paper to print them all out(doubtful). If I do, I'll be putting the results in a binder to be dropped off later and I'll have the day off to relax with my hubby. Guilt free.

Who wants to bet it'll go nothing like that?

On a brighter note, this is still a fairly rough draft and I don't have a contracted deadline. So if I decide to ignore the plan and just enjoy the day doing anything but writting, I can do that too.


And with that happy thought, I'm off to hit the sack. If I stay up any longer I'm going to be waking up with keyboard marks on my face.



~Sun and Moon

I'm still wandering around here somewhere...

Well, I managed to survive the holidays with my sanity intact. I still have christmas presents for both of my nieces floating around, but I'm sure they won't mind late gifts too terribly much. I hope not, anyway.

For some reason chapter 23 has proven to be as sticky as chapter 22 was. I'm not sure why, but it seems....a little overstuffed. I hope to strip it down a bit tomorrow, but since I have a very neglected apartment to clean and artwork to finish, I'm not sure how long I'll have to work on it.

On a happier note, my friend is done with the first ten chapters and I'll be heading over there sometime in the near future to pick them up and go over edits with her. Then those same chapters will be given to another friend of mine. One last round of edits, and I'll have the first ten chapters of my book posted on authonomy while the rest of the book is editted.

Oi...

And somewhere in all this I need to get six pictures finished and ready to be sold in May, and get some art prints made up to be sold as well.... 

I also need to get started on book two in this trilogy of mine. Hm. Well, on that note, I'm off to bed. Maybe if I'm lucky I'll get chapter 23 polished all in one go and have plenty of time to finish the artwork awaiting me on my artdesk. 

 I can hope, right?


~Sun and Moon