Joely Sue Burkhart

After a fever-free weekend, Middle Monster is FINALLY feeling better!  Yay!  Her throat is still sore at times, and she does have ear pain off and on, but she’s eating and playing almost back to normal.  We had a scary moment last night during dinner when apparently one of the scabs came off.  It must have been big enough that she could feel it dangling or scratching in her throat.  She got a little panicked about that and didn’t want to eat any more of her dinner.  Later, she ended up eating two peanut butter sandwiches without problem, though. 

So it’s back to the EDJ for me today. I’m going to be soooo far behind! 

As for writing, I continued slowly through this little side project.  No, it wasn’t planned.  No, I don’t think I’ll be finishing it any time soon.  But it was one of those really old stories that I’ve had for a long time, and something I read recently sparked it until it just wouldn’t shut up.  So I wrote out 6656 words on it over the past two weeks or so.  The fire has died down, and peace is coming back into my mind, just in time for school to start up this week.  YAY.  The monsters will be going to bed much earlier at night, so I should have more writing time without staying up so late.

My Sven total to date is 30,720 words.  Not bad, although I’m a little behind.

I also made a submission of Beautiful Death, and revised the little Maya fantasy story for Drollerie Press, changing it from first person to third.  I think it reads a little better now.  Hopefully that freebie will go up soon and I’ll post a link to it.

My plans for this week: 

1). Unbury myself at the EDJ, which might require some overtime.

2). Return to The Fire Within.  My goal is to finish the first draft by 8/31.

How about you?