Gah! Chickens, Guinea Pigs and Kids...

What a week this last 7 days has turned out to be. Monday was a public holiday and thinking I still had days before my latest clutch of chickens hatch, darling hubby and I decided we would take the kidlets to the movies. Now it is a no brainer ... heading off to see the latest (and thankfully last) HP movie. A touch of shopping and heading home to ..... shock horror! our chick (only 1 in the incubator that looks like it was fertile) has hatched while we are out. Well, we think, the hen downstairs is sitting on a clutch but not due for another week. Best get it organised to be a lone chick. Wake up Tuesday morning to cheeping as the hen downstairs starts bringing out her clutch. Quick pop them in with the lone. At lunchtime there is more and again that night. In the end we have 9 chicks.

Hubby then declares the lady at work has found him 2 female guinea pigs so they added to our brood....what a week with our increasing animal count at Old MacDonalds Farm (or rather Frog Haven!)

Then we get a phone call, daughters are needed to practice photography on.....

Writing 2 000 words achieved (a little on the low side) but lots personally. *Sigh* hopefully next week will be more productive :)

Catch you all soon, hopefully with more and bigger news.

Imogene

Have you ever....

...had a day when you just wish you could crawl back into bed? Yesterday was one of them. So there I was, big plans for the day. Reached nearly 45 000 words on my second manuscript and then without a fizz, pop of bang first the desktop screen goes blank. Ok, that was bad luck, but we have a spare downstairs, then the laptop fails and lastly my external back up drive....uh oh, cause now I do have a problem....see everything is saved on both the computer and the back up drive....dearie dearie me.

Thanks to super hubby though.

He is organising for the computer and an old computer to be sent off to another town in our region to have repairs and back ups done. Bummer though about the external drive as I was going to organise to have it all backed up and brought back to me this week. But beggars can't be choosers.

So, while this is all really bad luck, it is able to be recovered from (I hope anyway) just going to slow down my efforts at world domination via books anyway.

Anyway, not that I am "stalking" my email client as someone lately suggested I should, but I am back to waiting on hearing from the publishers.

Have a great day

Imogene

OMG!!!

So here I am practically bouncing off the walls in excitement. I know I need to sit down and be quiet, but lordy, it is hard today.

I sent off the first manuscript in the series, well actually a partial and have a request to see the whole thing. Yup, of course this could be a false start, but we all have to start somewhere....right?

My stomach is clenching with excitement though and really, for a first novel (my only other title has been a town history before so a bit of a change in pace) I think it bodes well, so long as I can keep the writing fresh.

Yep this is an off the chest blog today...but forgive me...it is the excitement typing :)

Have a great day!

Imogene

Rewrites more rewrites and still more rewrites

Yep, back to Starline. I love this book and I love the characters, but I have to say, currently I just so badly want to get this book finished. Why? Because I think I am on my 400th reading of the story.

Why is that a problem you ask. Well, now that I know the story so intimately (yes I know I should anyway because I wrote it) it is hard to walk away, take a break and come back fresh. That is where the aid of my trusty Beta-Writer/Critique partner comes to the fore. She has read and re read and told me the sections that I have stuffed up in.

Now to be fair, this is my first major attempt at writing. And she may be kind....although I do hope not. I can't learn anything if people are kind and don't tell me the truth about my writing. So here I am blogging away merrily about the trials and tribulations of getting these rewrites done. So I would love to pose a problem to those of you who are already published....How many more times am I likely to need to re-read and how many people do you have beta-read your books?

Anyway, on a bright note, there is only about another 20 000 words left to be written in the second book, before it should be due for the first round of re-writes :) Oh joy of joys more re-writes!

Well, don't forget to visit my website and put it into your bookmarks.

For now, I am back to rereading Starline.

Cheers!