Joely Sue Burkhart

My goals were simple last week, which is a good thing because I really didn’t have a lot of free time at all for writing.  I did finish the zombie story, edited it a dozen times (it’s amazing how much work four thousand little words can cause) and shipped it off to Deena at DP.  I made it 3 or 4 mornings dark and early, but didn’t get more than a couple hundred words each morning.  I started work earlier each day, and worked later, and still haven’t caught up yet.  This week, wash, rinse, repeat.

Back to Letters and trying to finish the major new sequence of scenes rather early in the story line.  I’m almost done.  I wrote [this is boring] at one point, so these scenes will take a ton of work to spiff up, but there were some really good conflicts that came up too.  Another facet of Conn’s character revealed.  So it’s worth the work.  The next few tough scenes will be taking existing scenes in Rae’s POV and switching them over to Conn’s.  Finding the balance, searching through his emotions, etc.  Tough.  I was hoping to finish by the end of Feb but… That might not be possible.

I also finished Patricia Briggs’ Iron Kissed yesterday.  I hadn’t planned to — in fact, I planned to work a few hours for the EDJ after church.  From the reviews, I knew it was a pretty meaty book in the series.  I can’t say I’m thoroughly happy with how things turned out, but I didn’t hate the book either.  I’ll admit it made me cry.  Dang, maybe I’m turning into a softy — that’s 2/3 books for the year that have made me bawl!

When was the last time a book made you emotional?