I love this picture with the small tree nestled in among the big ones. What a lovely spot!

With Vision posted and the novel done, I found myself suddenly drained last night. But I needed to get some work done. I wanted something that I would not have to think too much about for a couple days.

And I remembered that I had started typing in Sooma I and needed to get back to work on it.

4000 and some words later I finally went to bed.

It's not a horrible story, really. Not bad for something I wrote at thirteen, and my first really totally mine story. Prior to this I had written a lot of fanfic and then shared universe stories with a friend. Sooma, though the characters often echoed those shared universe characters, were mine alone.

I'll get more done on it over this holiday weekend, and then get back to real work. It's a nice break, and a nice reminder of how I started in this madness.

DONE! DID IT! AND BEFORE MIDNIGHT!

So, what do I work on now?

Vision is now posted. All is well with the world... at least for a week or so before I start leaping into the next issue.

I spent part of today adding a much needed scene to Eliora's World. I still have the damned 17 pages left to edit. I'm beginning to feel like one of those people in a story who start for home and keep finding themselves back at the starting spot.

Okay. I have every intention of being done tonight. I believe that I have done all the work I need to do elsewhere -- July/August dare listed at FM, July Challenge and TAC listed at FM, and Vision done. I'm sure something else will turn up.

But right now, I'm going back to work on the novel.

Okay! I'm working on Eliora's World. I have heard from Victoria Strauss and the Interview should be here this afternoon or evening, so all is well there! As soon as I get done with it, I'll post Vision. Yay!

Last month was truly pitiful for word count, what with all the work on everything but writing. Less than 40,000 words. I intend to make a lot of that up this month. Whether I actually do or not is questionable, but I am going to try.

Time to work now!

Russ just left for his trip to New York. Actually, he left for work, and he'll leave work for New York later this afternoon --via Omaha and a plane. He took Princess Cricket with him, though she only gets to travel across town and is not very happy about it. We decided that she would do best in the care of the vet for the next five days, though, since I cannot give her the pills she needs. She's small, but she's extremely tought to hold down. Russ almost couldn't get her in the cat carrier.

He won't be home until late the 5th or early the 6th.

I don't think I'm going to stay up this morning. I was up until about three this morning getting things done for July, though I haven't posted Vision yet. I do have a placeholder put in for the Interview, so if there is nothing on hand by this afternoon, I'll go ahead and post. I hate to do that because I fear people won't come back to see the interview later.

A quick question for those who know anything about these blogs....

I want to change the template to one that has the built in comments. I don't want to lose the comments already posted from my old add-in, and I'm not sure how I should handle that. Just leave the old comment program link where it is? Will it disappear when I do the new blog template?

Time to get some rest.