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Once again I need to apologize for silence. My family and I went up to our friends’ cabin in Siren again last weekend, and, apparently, wore ourselves out completely. I think what happened was that we finally had some really amazing Minnesota summer weather on Friday. I think up in Siren it actually hit 90 F/ 32 C. Mason and I spent almost the entire day either on or in the water. We were back on Monday, but I actually spent much of the day napping (something I usually don’t allow myself to do because day time = writing time.) Then yesterday was spent sort of making up for all the things I didn’t do on Monday – calling people back, making plans, cancelling plans (sorry [livejournal.com profile] swords_and_pens! sorry [livejournal.com profile] jiawen!), etc.

Today, I finally feel like I'm back among the living.

And the week is already half over.

Nurf.

In good news, however, I did manage to get a lot of writing done on Tate's YA project yesterday. Because Mason was finally worn down, he spent much of Monday and Tuesday absorbed in various low-key activities like reading, video gaming, TVing, and LEGOs. (Though we now own the Falcon, he's decided to finish up Vader's Tie-Fighter first.)

Tate, alas, has had to restart the YA for the second time. Turns out I kind of suck when I attempt to write third person. I'd been hoping to stretch myself, you know, do something challenging, but Anne, my editor, finally just suggested I go back to first person and you know, "write a Garnet novel without the sex." It is to laugh. If only because [livejournal.com profile] naomikritzer and Shawn told me to do that from the beginning. As Shawn says, "You don't mess with the cash cow. Just milk it!"

Indeed.

I'm thinking that if I want to work on my third person skills, I may try to take some time after the YA is do to practice on a couple of short story ideas that have been banging around at the back of my skull ever since I started working on ALMOST (the YA.)

Since Mason is once again occupying himself, I should probably continue to take advantage of that and get started writing.

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