A Great End to a Crazy Week....

This week has been one of the craziest I've had in ages... Both in real life and my writing world. 

Writing wise, it wasn't my best week yet. Wednesday saw me get another 3100 words added to Eleven, and progress a little more in Chapter 6. I'm almost done that chapter, once I get over a speed bump. It's normal, they happen and I will find a way over it... Somehow! Some spots are too wordy, others need to be added to, and I'm seeing mistakes all over the place. I have orders to just WRITE and worry about that later, like after its first draft is finished!

I started prepping for Friday's run, by thinking if I couldn't progress in the main file, I'd work on something else... Like start a new scene to splice in later or continue on in another scene idea I've already started.

Life does love to throw curve balls once in a while...

Friday was a dud writing wise. I guess Uni decided I needed a break and made me take one by making me sick on Thursday. I spent all of Friday recovering from it... I slept most of the day, and although I tried to work, I could not get my brain to work right.

All of my readers know that when I say I'm "too sick" to work, I'm knocked flat. Yeah, Thursday and yesterday were not good days. I'm glad my husband was around on Thursday so I could spend the rest of the day in bed with the cat, in between bouts of sipping ginger ale (gross!) and praying I'd be fine for Saturday morning's adventure at this year's Knowledge Festival, held at my old high school.

I'm now back to my old self, things went beyond my imagination and expectations for my son today (update on that is HERE on my Autism Blog - ALL students who represented their schools are winners in my opinion!) and I'm a little ticked off at myself for not getting more than 3100 words added to Eleven. I know, I should be easier on myself, but with the way things have been really smoking in the writing department, I can't help but be a little tee'd off for not getting more done in it. I want its first draft done as soon as I can do it, that way I can get it into draft 2 and off to my alpha and beta teams... And so I'm not going so crazy not being able to write a lot during the summer months!

It seems I'm going to get one writing day this week after all, and I plan on burning up Word to make up for missing out on writing time on Friday... Blasted germs. *SIGH* If I can't get over that speed bump in Chapter 6 this coming week, I'll work on another scene to splice in later on.

Hey, it's still progress even if it's not in the main file, right? *wink!*

I hope all of you have a great weekend!

New Blog!

Hi everyone!
I just wanted to let y'all know that I have started a new blog here on BlogSpot under this account... It's specifically for updates on my family's journey with Autism Spectrum Disorder. 
My son, whom I call "Lil Etoile" in my blogs, was diagnosed with Autism Disorder in 2008 and I've been documenting his journey since 2010 in my blogs and various sites. Since I'm able to have more than one blog here in BlogSpot and I want to keep that separate from my writings/main blog, I thought I'd set up another blog under this account just for that purpose.
The new blog is located at Unlocking A Child's Mind and I'll be including the link to it in my Links section here... Just like I have the link to this blog in the Links section on that blog. 
I will warn y'all that some of the entries there are going to be very long and somewhat tedious but if I can help one family or person out there with autism spectrum disorder, my job is done. I will say that all of the techniques, etc I use to help my son will not work for everyone and that anyone who has a child with ASD or has ASD themselves should find what works right for them. Everyone with ASD is different and will react differently to different things, so please keep that in mind when you're reading that blog.
I hope y'all are having a wonderful weekend and see you sometime later this week with another writing update!
~Veridian~