May 31, 2016
I’m usually a glass half full kind of girl, so it is often easy for me to see only possibilities when challenge and chaos lie before me. However, I’m learning to swirl that remaining volume through the transparency of the glass half empty. After all, if you don’t know when it’s half empty you may wait too late to refill it, yes?
So yesterday was a balancing act between day job contract adaptations, writing, project – n, and quality time with Superhero for Memorial Day.
It was a day well invested—I call it success. We had a peaceful day traveling around to speak our remembrances after some grind stone work for the day job, then I finished the day at my desk; the writer pounded out some issues for the manuscript, and the project manager clarified a few details.
So, what’s on the agenda for today?
Now that the rewrite of the final chapter is firm I’m ready to move forward. The next step is to read aloud the entire manuscript making margin changes with my colored pencils the way I did with the final chapter. Therefore, today is a day of organization: I need to print out the manuscript for margin marking, clarify the deadline on my calendar, put a closing date on the rewrite I just completed, update my journal on rewrite process, and select who is to be or not to be the listener for this dramatic audible presentation (laugh). Below are a few of the choices. Who would you pick?
I’m probably going to need them all. The dragon helps me stay focused on the story; the thread a good storyteller will hold and weave all the way through. Einstein reminds me to keep the world simple and true, and the next two characters keep me watching the details in my characters so I notice the small differences that set them apart even when they are doing the same things.