Monthly Archives: May 2009

May
5

Getting ready…

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So I sent my first few requests to the agents I pitched to. It’s just the standard 1st 3 chapters plus a synopsis, so nothing major there. Of course this was compounded by the fact that Word 2007 decided to start eating my files. Including my synopsis and part of my master word file. And yes, I back things up. Frequently – but for some reason, anything that I had had open as a .docx and resaved as a .doc to send to someone else got corrupted. Definitely something to do with the XML tables, and I could not recover them. I was *not* happy, but thankfully some of my beta readers had the content I needed and I’m back on board. And completely paranoid. I’ve resaved all the .docx files into .docs and saved them in multiple places. I may even upload them to google docs one of these… Read more
May
3

On Mothers…

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I suppose you could say this weekend has been a bust. Mr myn worked all weekend and won’t be home until much later tonight. That pretty much just leaves me with the kids and piles of laundry, cleaning, edits…you name it. Guess how much I’ve gotten done this weekend? Nada. Zip. Nothing. As I type this, both kids are in the bathtub fussing at each other, but I’m going to choose to ignore it for a moment. Lucy in particular has been extraordinarily clingy these last few days. Literally, every time I’ve sat down today or yesterday to try to sneak in 5 minutes of editing I’ve been confronted with a small body clinging to my legs, insisting she be held RIGHT NOW. Which might even be ok if she’d sit still, but that’s a laugh and a half. Between demands for the sippy cup or needing to sit on… Read more