The Girdle of Melian

I'm about two pages away from being able to scrawl The End on the manuscript! Also, since I already started editing before it was completely finalised, I'm roughly halfway through that as well - on Chapter 20 of about 35. Yet for the past couple of weeks I've been finding it hard to get motivated - or disciplined, whichever you prefer - and have mostly been futsing around with my research notes and typing up already-written scenes and printing it all out to see what it looks like. If anyone knows of a YA contest or even a short-story contest for YA or middle grade writing, please let me know! I need some flint and tinder to spark up my kindling. Meanwhile, I've been reading quite a bit (so what else is new?) but as December comes in tomorrow, I've *got* to finish all the books that I'm still in the middle of, in order to do a year-end review of my Books Read list (see sidebar). I wish I had kept these lists from about age 10, but it's also exciting plan a lo...

besides Earl Grey, of course :-)

Courtesy of Snail's Tales: Part One Part Two

I tagged myself off Linda 's blog! Now I'm tagging you! 1. There are way too many quotes in my head. No, not poetry, unfortunately, but The Simpsons, Seinfeld, Red Dwarf, Fawlty Towers, etc. 2. I just don't like tea. I mean, I don't mind it, and I love the idea of it, but give me a latte any day. 3. I memorise numbers. I can't do much with them, but I remember them all, old phone numbers, combinations, etc. Also, if I have a list of things to remember for a test, or as part of a To Do pile, I can remember them all if only I remember how many items there were. 4. Currently, I've got 6 knitting projects, 1 nearly-complete novel, 1 complete but unedited novel and 3-10 new writing projects on the go. And yet I'm a total time-waster... 5. I can bend my pinky finger all the way back to touch the top of my hand. 6. National anthems make me cry :-)

Here it is !

Between my birthday yesterday and a very busy work week, I've barely done anything but catch up beta reading and post fly-by comments on certain blogs, the forum and our accountability circle . Not to mention poor Sven , who's probably wondering what became of all my high-falutin goals. My only goal for the rest of this week is therefore to write at least one scene. Maybe two. There's a great post about that today on Sven's page. And to catch up on all the pontificating going on, including this great thread over at the accountability circle... Also waiting for news from Australia :-)

Sven 's back! Round four of the Seventy Days of Sweat started yesterday - I'm meant to be writing and/or editing at least 850 words per day. Here's hoping the Accountability Circle helps keep me on track! In other news, Jo's website is up! Visit her here .