round of words in eighty days

Two days until NaNo!

I’m not quite ready but I’m not worried about it. I did update my NaNo novel info this AM at the NaNo site to include my novella expansion and to swap out my next YA project for the sequel to an existing Claire novel if I still need words.

Still editing but I just dashed off the final intimacy scene to my editor for The PURE.

All 41 hours of my required continuing professional education for my annual CPA license renewal are complete. Yay! Huge relief to have that done.

I still need to finish my edits for The PURE and I’m expecting edits for my Christmas ditty to arrive any day now. I know the anthology’s editor has been busy with all the stories of late.

My goals and current stats for this round are on my ROW80-4 page.

The Linky site lists other participants’ progress reports. Give them some encouragement too.

We’re in the final count down to NaNo!

I’m going to tweak my plan slightly. I did hear from the publisher I submitted my superhero novella to. They liked the concept and the plot but felt like the story parts other than the romance needed more development. They invited me to resubmit it after a few more drafts. Sooooo….up on the docket starting 11/1 will be another pass at Prometheus Unstitched. It’s a cute story, dammit, so I want someone to adopt it but I guess a few more charm school and etiquette lessons to remove the hillbilly edges are required first. Fine. I’m nothing if not determined.

Other “stuff” is threatening to overwhelm me in these pre-liftoff days. I have two additional intimacy scenes for my novel done (first’ish draft anyway) and am about halfway through the final one. Editing-wise, I’m in the middle chapters. The BLURB, however–she is DONE!! ::::Claire takes a bow and blows kisses to her publisher::::: Cover and blurb for The P.U.R.E. coming 11/14, I think, or somewhere thereabouts.

I also have to accomplish 41 hours of continuing professional education for my CPA license renewal before 11/30. I started about a week ago. Gulp. Nothing like waiting until the last minute. Good news is, I’m super-human fast at online training courses. I’ve worked my way through 21 hours’ worth in about a week. Twenty to go. Ideally, I would like to finish CPEs by 10/31 and ship off my paperwork and my $240(!!!) fee to the state of Texas shortly thereafter.

Then…my plate will be clear (mostly) for NaNo…except for maybe a couple of beta reads I owe and am scandalously and inexcusably delinquent on.

I hope I’m not exhausted before I even begin.

My goals and current stats for this round are on my ROW80-4 page.

The Linky site lists other participants’ progress reports. Give them some encouragement too.