I really am still alive.

I'm back to work on Glory (AKA, Doors), and it's really dragged all my attention to it. Which is good. I want to be able to fall into this novel and get it right... Well, at least as 'right' as my skills will allow. I'm having a good time, and I've come up with a few new scenes that I really like.

Unfortunately, I need to add a lot more in words. But they are coming to me -- a bit slower than I would like, but fitting where they should, and filling in some of the blanks that I hadn't even noticed the first time through.

Loud thunder! Yes, storms again tonight. It doesn't look like anything serious on our end, and I do love to hear a storm.

Getting late. My mind is starting to wander. I think I'll upload this and get to bed soon!

I have come up with my writing project for this month. It's to add 20-30,000 words to Glory. Glory used to be Doors, Which used to be The First Open Door. It is now the first of a trilogy. I always knew there would be more stories -- that's obvious from the ending of the first one. But now I have the titles and the first hints of plots. The titles are Glory, Dreams and Eternity.

The main character's name is Glory, so this works very well for the first book. Or at least I think so this week.

I cut some material near the end of book one to start out book two instead. That dropped the book down to about 67,500 words. I added in around 3000 words last night from notes I'd been doing. Now the question is whether I can do that for another ten days or so. (grin)

Anyway, I'm excited and happy about it. I like this book. I snippeted it chat last night and got a good reaction, too.

Other work is going well, too.

Obviously, I'm getting back into the swing of things!

Projects to the right of me. Projects to the left of me... will I actually ever get any of them done?

Not likely. But you know... I'm having a good time working on them. And my file cabinets are about 2/3rds organized again. I have to clear one complete drawer of junk out and use it for actual story stuff. LOL.

I also have found that I don't have printed copies of all the stories I've sold. I have copies printed from the websites -- I keep notebooks of those -- but many of the stories I wrote and sold directly to ezines never made it to print. For that matter, neither did the latest copies of some of the books. I'll be doing that over the next few days. Bought an entire case of paper, just to make certain I'd get through them all.

Had a pretty good day today, including the absolutely incredible rain storm while at Pizza Hut. I just got the city agenda work done and mailed off, too.

And now... back to work on something fun!

I can't tell if I'm farther behind or finally catching up. I had computer problems last night, right after I uploaded Vision. I am so grateful it waiting until that long! I spent the night doing handwritting stuff and cleaning out my file cabinets. I actually felt productive doing it.

And today I came up with the clear plan of how to fix the ending of First Open Door or whatever the hell the title is this time around. It does mean moving a set of scenes at the end of the novel to a second book which really isn't that much of a surprise.

I still have a few more things to do on the Access project, too. Then I'm going to show it to a couple people and get their ideas on it. I can't believe how much fun I had doing it! In fact... I think I'm going to go check something out right now, and see if I can do it. (grin)

I also have several handwritten pages for a new short story. I've had the first couple pages for a few weeks, but last night allowed me to pull some more of it together. It was one of the short stories on my 'to do' list that I posted here a while back, but I can't remember what I called it then. The name now is The Sins of Youth.

The temp is 97 °F / 36 °C with a heat index of 108 °F / 42 °C . I'm going to just hide for a while...

Hmmm... type of first part of story, work on Access program, clean out last drawer of file cabinet, clean up and archive a bunch of stuff from computer.... Yeah, I can be busy for a while!

Oh. A couple days without posting!

Nothing really drastic going on. I do have a project in Microsoft Access that I'm in love with and can't think of hardly anything else. Lucky for me it involves a lot of writing, or I'd be in trouble on my word counts!

Vision is going to be a day or two late while I work out a glitch. Things should be fine there soon.

And now, back to my project -- which I will announce soon, I think. I'm really having a great time with it! I needed something just a little bit different to get my brain moving again, and this seems to be the perfect answer. I'm having a great time!