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Why I decided working on multiple projects at once was a good idea, I'll never know.

Actually, lies. It's because I have the attention span of a squashed gnat. With ADHD.

So, current tally:

• Summer of Betrayal -- Needs a couple light scene/sentence edits here and there, then it's ready to (omg) show to agent-type people.
• Rosie's Book That Needs a Title -- Sleeping Beauty re-appropriation. Needs heavy edits that for some reason are nowhere near as daunting as the edits for SoB were. Likely because Rosie is a badass and pretty much writes this one herself, actually. It is for that reason that this is next on the list.
• Autumn of Discord -- The second Camlain book. Thanks to my attempt to start it during NaNo, I have the first...oh, three to five pages or so. It's not a bad beginning, actually; good enough to make me want to work on it again, which is a good sign.
• Wild At Heart -- Needs to decide if it is a standalone book or a series. And if it's a series, that's the series name, so what are the individual book titles? Most of Chapter One of this exists, thanks again to NaNo, but the characters are far more well-developed than any visible plot. Needs more outlining.
• World Enough -- I wrote this the majority of the time during NaNo and even though I skipped around and there are chapters from all over the place I reread it Friday and I love it. Love it. I have a full outline. I know my characters. I know my world. I just have to make myself focus. It would be easier to do this if I didn't have the attention span of a squashed gnat with ADHD. Ah, brain-that-loves-multitasking, you are both a gift and a curse.

I wonder if I left anything out. I only included the ones that already have existing prose-- counting the other two Camlain books, I have...four others (five if you count that one of those four is made of two separate novellas that are going to be smushed together with another one to make a book).

Any agents out there want to take a chance on a slightly indecisive, somewhat unfocused but ever-witty (in my fiction, at least) and overly imaginative authoress who really needs to pay off her student loans?

Please?

I told you.

I'm really bad at remembering to do things that I should! But I'm doing it. Or at least, I am now.

Since my last blog, I've only managed to paper-edit the first two chapters of this novel. But in my defense, three things happened-- I got sick, babysat my sixteen-month-old cousin (not in that order) and got inspiration for a new project. This new project is, for now, solely confined to my moleskin until I get this last round of edits done on Summer of Betrayal (seriously, people, I'm still looking for a better title here-- something involving treachery, intrigue, suspicion and summertime. GO) which I plan to have done by Sunday. Why Sunday, do you ask? Because my best friend just finished a very stressful semester of pharmacy school and has put up with me working on this book for the last three years, and has heard all about it, but has yet to get to read it. She comes home on Sunday, and I promised I'd have a copy printed out for her to read (what she doesn't know is that it comes with a red pen for her to use as liberally as she likes).

Sidenote: I have strawberry tea by Wedgwood and it is amazing. I'm on my last box, so I'm hoarding it like I'm on one of those A&E shows.

Next up on the editing list is my Sleeping Beauty re-appropriation. I've already made a start on it, back in September sometime, and I think I might have made it through the first chapter. I can already tell the editing process for this is going to be completely different from the one that I've used for Summer of Betrayal. Rosie's book needs more work than SoB (See? I cannot keep this title when it's abbreviation is SOB) in some ways, but it needs less in others-- namely character and relationship development. Mostly for this book it's that I wrote it for NaNoWriMo so it needs much paring down in some areas, and a large amount of expansion in areas that I decided I could totally skip last November. Such as wrapping up the entire end of the plot in a timely manner (I may have rushed right on through that one so as to finish the book itself when I finished my word count on November 30th).

This new project? Is the reason that I love tumblr (also, shameless self-promotion, but if you don't like Harry Potter, NCIS or other completely random things you might not like it-- my tumblr is here). I follow a blog called Crackships, which essentially makes or posts graphics of completely random celebrity pairings. One day there was an animated GIF someone had created of two characters from TV shows that did not exist at the same time or in the same country or even remotely in the same world-- and I was intrigued by the juxtaposition. It's been a downward spiral from there.

It really goes to show that inspiration can be found anywhere as long as you allow yourself to have your eyes and ears open to possibilities. So that's today's moral, kids-- keep your eyes open, your ears listening, and your notebook and pen at the ready. The world is yours for the manipulating.