I have had a really exciting day. First, I got to sleep in, because the Rock God got up with the Fecklet. This isn’t quite as exciting as it sounds, as I only got to sleep in till 7.00 and then I had to get up and wake myself up enough to start writing when Fecklet went to nursery at 8.00, but when you’re a parent, every extra hour of sleep counts. A lot.
Then, I wrote my 2000 daily words like nothing. It zoomed out of me, which was a good thing, because my hands are a little tiny bit shaky at the moment. Nothing to worry about, but enough so that it’s good for me to rest. Anyway, I’d been a bit stuck on this chapter because I wasn’t sure where to go with it, but I decided—hey, let’s have a flashback.
For some reason I find flashbacks really easy to write at the moment. Even though, as I write them, I’m aware that there’s a 75% chance I’ll be cutting them. It’s because my heroine has had quite an interesting childhood, and she’s still feeling the effects of it. So it helps me to write her past, so I can trace the effects of it on her present.
It’s good to know when you’re writing for yourself. Maybe this will end up being for a reader as well, but if I cut it, it’s not the end of the world.
Anyway, THEN I got an email from my editor about the title for my next book. I haven’t talked a lot about this, but we’ve been throwing around a lot of titles for the book, and none of them have quite stuck yet, for various reasons. Some book’s titles are easy (like Nina Jones and the Temple of Gloom) and some take a bit longer. My working title wasn’t commercial enough, and then the title we gave it before I’d delivered a draft didn’t end up fitting the story enough, and then we had two or three other ideas that didn’t fit the list, or didn’t fit the book. And we wanted to have a great title, as it’s my debut book with Headline Review.
But last Thursday my editor came up with something that I loved, and then my agent loved it too, and then my editor ran it past the Headline team and they loved it too, so it looks like this one is going to stick!
Which is a huge relief.
And then, I booked a special night at the SPA next month with my dear girlfriends, as a birthday treat.
And then, the Fecklet and I read not one, not two, but THREE chapters of Winnie the Pooh together.
And now, it’s time for America’s Next Top Model!
I ask you—can this day get any better?!
And tomorrow will be even better, as it’s the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Awards Luncheon. And more about that, tomorrow. In between preening.
That’s great news about your title! I can’t wait to hear it
. Yay on special SPA night! Take care of those hands!
You tease. All that build up and no….title.
Sigh.