Thought Patterns

I've made great strides in the editing of Simple Sarah. I went through all of the print out, making notes as I went. My beta readers, D and R, did a freakin' fantastic job!

I am on page 310 of what is so far 365 pages. It has climbed to over 91K, which is the best part. There are sections where I will back up and add a scene or two and there are scenes to add and/or work on in the sections coming up.

I've still not come up with a name for the nation. I stare at it and my brain freezes.

Meanwhile, I have been slowly going through the huge honkin' double spaced print out of BG3. I am only at page 59 with about 200 more to go. The story isn't finished but I need to go over it and decide where it is going.

When finished with SS, I will print it out (single spaced) and turn it over to Lorna for her critical reading. She's read it so many times, though, but I don't think she's read this version so it will be a treat. While she is reading that, I will get back to work on BG3.

So that is where I am now and what I have been doing.

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Listening to: Paul Simon - Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes
via FoxyTunes

Slowly but surely I am getting BG3 done (it is now at 15,289). It's not that writing it is difficult, it's just that writing is difficult. There's a lot on my mind lately and only a small fraction of it has anything to do with writing.

It is interesting to read what I am writing now compared to when I first started BG3. I started it nearly two years ago as a short story in a challenge over at the Forward Motion website. (just realized I've not been there in, like, ever!)

The folks at Forward Motion helped me realize I could do this. And also helped me realize I was not in the right place. I needed to hang around folks of my own kind. Kinda like grouping critters at the zoo. A chimpanzee might be just fine with orangutans as it learns to climb but, really, a chimp needs to be with other chimps.

Which is good that I found Golden Crown Literary Society. Cool group of lesbian writers and readers. It was through their Yahoo! Groups list that I found my publisher.

Where was I? Oh, right. Writing BG3. I need to do that, don't I?

I got some sporadic writing done today. It all added up to a decent count for the day, which is good, right?

BG3 is going good. It finally crossed the 10K mark. One-eighth of the way done. :rolleyes:

I've set a goal to reach at least 80K in 20 days. I'm going up Nawth around April 21st and I want it done before I go. Done, dammit, done! That means around 3500 words a day. I can do this. I can. Yep.

Whilst out of the realm of the WWW, I did some weally wonderful writing.

At last I mentioned it, I was writing/struggling with BG2. After starting over umpteen times, I dropped it like a hot 'tater. BG2 is back on the shelf. Not even on a back burner.

Instead, I am now working on BG3. While it sits just over 7K words, it is going very well.

BG1–Butch Girls Can Fix Anything–was about Kelly and Grace.

BG2–title unknown–is (was?) about Nikki and Ellen.

BG3–Butch(es) Girls and Stereotypes– is about Harri and Liz.

BG4–Butch Girls Have Many Talents–is about Chaz, Rain's sister, and Sam, Ellen's best friend.

BG5 will be about Rain and Deb, a protagonist from BG1.

BG6 will be about the matriarchs, Annette and Kaye.

Of all the characters, Harri is the butchest. She's also the most unsure of herself, the most underestimated person in the whole series. My goal is to help her come out of her shell. I like this book and always have. I'd like to get it finished by the end of March but, ha, that ain't gonna happen since that means 7K words a day.

I opened up BG2 and did 1024 new words. Surprised me! I'd been thinking about the scene in my head all this time, I guess that's why it came out so easy.

I'm feeling somewhat better. My ears aren't as bad but still stuffed. I'm congested and coughing still. I've decided to go to the doc after all. It's not good that my ears are still bothering me.

We set up the new fish tank today. What a cool tank! Lorna got herself a fish and he's in there now. We'll move Sumo and whatever snails are left (most of them died!) over into the new tank in a few days. I need more plants and a place for the new fish to hide. We tried putting them both in the little tank together but that didn't work out.

I've begun the hacking of what I have of BG2. It shrunk to 44108, which includes the 1755 new words I got today.

I've been discussing, via email, with others about what to name this book. The current choices got me to thinking and I have been roaring with ideas all day. I will go at it harder tomorrow.

Today was a weird day. The storm never happened. All the hoopla for it fizzled. And I didn't have the gumption to write. Oh, I had ideas a'plenty. Just not the oomph to write them down.

I'm a bad girl. No cookie. Oh, to hell with you. I want a cookie. A double dark chocolate Milano from Pepperidge Farms.

I am setting it aside now, letting it stew for a bit. The count came out to 96603. However, I chopped 6293 off the end to make the official THE END so the final count is 90310.

I am happy with it. I think it has a lot of strength to it. There are lots of editing to do. For some reason, my fingers have dyslexia and keep typing the words wrong. Not necessarily misspellings, but different words. bad is bed; the is that; their is they're; weird is wired.

What to do now? I let it sit for a while. I don't know how long. Perhaps a month. Perhaps less. I want to write another BG book so perhaps I will wait for that to be finished first. Decisions, decisions.