Waiting

I heard from the president of the publishing company. She agrees with her staff that the novel is publishable. She feels there are some re-writes needed. She also explained a little about her company and how they work. I'm waiting for their reviews so I can look into revisions. I was thinking of printing out the manuscript. I like to work with hard copies when editing. I mostly read on the monitor while I'm at work because it's easier. But it is different reading on the screen versus on paper. Of course, that's over 200 pages and I have no ink at work (j/k. Of course I wouldn't print something of that size at work....).

I also picked up my Idiot's Guide to Getting Published I bought a couple years ago. There's a section about what happens when someone says "yes." I had stopped reading before then. Now, I'm just making sure I understand the language of what's coming next, what happens with a sit-down.

I haven't been writing too much. I was going over the first vamp novel, the one I submitted, making a few changes here and there. The psychic one is at a bit of a standstill. I've already began an outline but I'm stuck. I'm not bored with it, which is a fear, but I think I just don't know what the big events are yet so I don't know how to get to them, if that makes sense. I had also looked at the Book Four in the vamp series. This is what I do when dealing with writer's block: I look at other stories (I'll probably start pulling up stories I started in high school and college. There're also the ideas I had started around the time I was laid-off last year); I read sitcom recaps on TWoP; I think of other story ideas; I read Cyanide & Happiness comics. It's my way of taking my mind off the current plot line, hoping that when I come back I'll have a sense of where I was going.