I Haven't Forgotten

While I've been fully embroiled in reading my manuscript this week, that doesn't mean I've forgotten about my blog.

Well, OK, maybe I have a little bit, but it's been a tough week. One of those weeks where I come home from work and the last thing I want to do is write. I just want to bury myself in my book.

After four or five months off from, it's been fun to go back and get reacquainted with my characters. I'd forgotten how much fun they were to write. I'm finding that scenes that were funny or sad or sexy to me when I wrote them are still that way to me now ... for the most part.

The more I read, the more I find to cut or rewrite or tone down or play up. Today, I put a big X through almost an entire page. A whole page! For me, that's a lot. I've also run my pencil through two or three paragraphs, easily striking unnecessary dialogue or narrative. As a matter of fact, I think I'm going to have to do a second read-through before I make the changes in my computer document to cut whole passages that I left in earlier this week.

So, that's why I've been absent here, because I've been reading and editing. There's only so many hours in a day and I want to say at some point in the not-to-distant future that I'm done with this book. Sure, I wrote it all the way to a conclusion, but it's not done yet. It still needs lots of editing. But, I'm having fun!