Staring contests with pigeons: what happens when you edit too much

I spent my afternoon at a local coffee shop which is co-owned by a friend of mine and John's, David2 (since I know so many Davids...). There are definite pluses to knowing someone who co-owns a coffee shop, mostly in the form of a free cup of coffee. :love: I don't know if I can keep milking this connection of mine, but I intend to go back. The place has huge windows, something I always love, and instead of the usual crowd of loud soccer moms with their frolicking children, there were quiet students. *blissful sigh* This may be the start of a beautiful relationship. :P

Like the photo? Notice all the red pen and pink highlighter on that page (yes, an actual page from The Blood Queen, in case you were starting to think the book was all in my mind)? Today was a tough day of editing, mostly because I had to rewrite 90% of a scene, which means I got a lot of editing done but not much page count. I'm going to keep going this evening, then end the day with a trip to the gym.

My brain feels pretty mushy right now. Near the end, before I had to pack it in and pick up John, I started getting distracted. Then I noticed the albino pigeon...staring at me through the side door (I was at the table closest to it)...watching. We had a staring contest. I won, a fact I boasted to John through text message.

His answer? "While dubiously impressive, get back to editing." Ah, now that's love. :P

(Tried to take a picture of the pigeon, but it flew away)

I don't have much to say so here's a music video!

Yeah, I've been busy. I got a new job, which starts in a month and a few days, so I'm preparing myself for that. I'm also feverishly, fiendishly, desperately trying to meet my deadline for edits with The Blood Queen. I'm sending it to my beta readers (my lovely critique group, as well as some other wonderful volunteer individuals) by July 9th, but that means I've got a horrific 35-pages-a-day editing schedule (40 is even better). X( (Okay, I know some people out there are probably going, "What? 35 pages a day? Does someone want the whaaa-mbulence?" To these people I say..."Want to edit my book for free?" :grin: )

Anyway, that is my life in one glorious nutshell. I haven't done anything really interesting. And besides a terrifying nightmare I had last night that involved a baby doll that came to life and crawled over my face while cooing "Ma-ma, ma-ma" in a creepy little kid's voice, I have nothing much to report. Hopefully that'll change in the next few days as my editing starts reaching the hilt. Who knows? Maybe I'll go crazy and make a blog post where I say "I am a fish" over and over again, or maybe "I am the lizard queen!" Although I think if I'm going to go insane, it'll probably be around mid-August when the new job "honeymoon period" should wear off. ;)

ANYWAY, since there's not much to say...have a music video!




I really like this song. And I think I like the music video too. There's a frenzied feeling to it that I think illustrates what I'm feeling a lot of the time. :P

What it's really like

I think I found this through Inkygirl. But, hey, if his mission was to interest someone in his book via an amusing, anecdotal music video...mission accomplished. :D

In which my muse won't leave me alone

All I want to do is finish the edits for The Blood Queen, but my muse keeps throwing ideas at me like mashed potatoes in a food fight. My story idea folder is getting rather fat, let me tell you, and the sad thing is I don't know when I'll have the time to work on anything in there. I'm already jotting down ideas for the second book in the Tayce series. I tried to tell my muse to shut up...but she promptly bitch-slapped me. I think we all know who the boss is (I showed her...yeah).

I whimpered about losing in a fight to my muse to my very good writer friend, S., who told me that she's been having similar problems. I think there's a muse union somewhere and they get together over Frappachinos and chortle about how to make life difficult. Although S. mentioned her story involved hot firefighters and I can always go for a guilty pleasure read that involves hot firefighters. Maybe S. needs to weaken, after all, doesn't the muse know best? :evil:

Don't worry, I've been good with my editing. I managed to get quite a lot done today. If I buckle down and get into the editing "zone," I'm actually quite good at zooming through editing, but getting into that zone is a chore. Oh, and sometime soon I need to upload some of my pics from Phoenix Comicon.

In other news, I'd just like to say to the shockingly huge amount of spambots that have been trolling my site lately: F-you. I will not approve your comment, no matter how much it may mimic real people speak. I see the URLs, I notice that they all go to BuyMyUselessCrap.com or whatever. If there are real people behind those annoying spam comments, please think of my poor bleeding eyeballs and overtaxed Askimet and stop posting. Real comments make me shiver with pleasure, but you spambots make me wanna kick something.