It's monday. My kids are up even though it's after midnight. I tired out the 2 yo so he'd sleep tonight. So what did he do? Fell asleep at 6 and woke up at 9:30 :P LOL
He's a lot like the character's in my books. I'd like for them to do one thing and they laugh at me and pull something else. *sigh* At least I can threaten to delete my characters! What's a mom to do with a 2 yo with that kind of sleep habits!
He's my fifth child so I know all the tricks of the trade. He's just stubborn. *glares at everyone who's asking me fascetiously where he got that from*
I have this friend. She's beta reading for me me and she gave me this idea. And asked me if I hated her. Nope. Just ask my critique partner. I like help and good ideas. Especially if I can see the WHY of it! Does that mean I'm jumping for joy at the changes she's proposing or the way I need to go about it??? NO!! I'm groaning and eye rolling and asking myself why I didn't think of that. It's something I've done before.
I could be stubborn and say no way! but why? I want to be the best writer I can be and if this will help, then so be it. I'm going to start my first chapter from someplace new and rewrite the first chapter. Wish me luck!! I am a little frustrated because I pretty much thought I was at the cosmetic stage. Let the beta readers find out if I did a name wrong half way through or help me with a procedural error, no biggie. But now I find out I'm going to have to do something else. *BIG SIGH* No, I don't hate you, beta reader, but I sure wish I could say you were wrong!
It will have to wait until I get some sleep though. I'm exhausted.
I already did 45 pages of edits, wrote new stuff and marked where new scenes needed to be written for the paranormal, Ulfiric's Mate. Ought to be interesting to see if I can do the rest of the story in the same manner. I think I can...
PS I've beaten the stress freeze and rolling right up to hot! Here we go.
Congrats on the "stress freeze" being over! :)
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain with the sleep habits of children. My oldest, 15, goes to sleep somewhere around 8pm and gets up at the crack of dawn, every day! Not such a big deal, except she feels everyone else should be up too! It doesn't bother me now that I don't live there anymore, but I wonder if she still wakes everyone else up. My little one, however, stays up way too late. Not just the tired, attempting to stay up to watch a few more mins of tv. Oh no, wide wide awake. I still need to get a handle on it. I look forward to reading more in the days to come :)
ReplyDeleteI've considered writing a book over the past few years, just never found the motivation to do so. Now that I'm back on twitter, i've met a few people who have written books so far and I just find that fascinating. I wish I had the patience. Now I see you mentioning a beta reader? Someone other than an editor reads it? Interesting... I look forward to reading more in the days to come
@Carolyn Thanks :D It feels good and it happened just in time!
ReplyDelete@Hwninpa LOL My teen had that problem for a while-If she was up then everyone could be. If she was doing chores, everyone had to, even if they'd done 2 hours of chores while she watched a movie! What is it with teens? :D