Some amazing stuff is going on in my writing career lately - hate to be coy and all, but my AK flying book has garnered some real interest from a real agent from a very real agency. So suddenly I find myself believing that it is a good book and I am a good writer.
I feel stupid even writing that, but you do start to have serious doubts after awhile.
In the short term, there are some things I have to do, like create a CV for myself (lord - resume writing!) that includes my aviation and writing experience. I much prefer to bang my head up against a wall then do this sort of thing. It always seems to take forever and never looks right and I always leave something out (like the fact that I can fly an airplane - need to include that!). I'm being whiney right now and I know it, but I can't help it. It's just so soul-sucking! ha!
I also have to write a few paragraphs on the truth in the book - mostly about the flying parts and how I know they are true (the people who helped me nail that stuff down and all that). The book is not, nor will it ever be, nonfiction, but even as a novel it makes a better story when you know all the technical stuff is true. So I need to write that, but it is kind of an unwieldy chore and it's not the sort of thing I have really considered about the book before. So I'm not totally sure on where to begin with that one.
Mostly I'm too busy freaking out to do anything which is the real problem!
Okay, my husband leaves for AK on business tomorrow, my Mom is here on Saturday and really this house needs to be clean, it rained all day today and the dog smells like....well, like a really really wet dog. Every time he walks outside he gets soaked and it takes forever for Labs to dry. Yuck! And I have fallen in love with The Little Zoo That Could on Animal Planet.
That's what I did today. Onward now to tomorrow where honestly, I need to do a whole hell of a lot more.
