Mash Them Together

This afternoon I sat down at the table with a pencil, notebook, and two versions of the blurb for my next novel, Spies Don't Retire, and spent some time working to make one coherent blurb out of them. I might have managed it. I'll let it sit for a day then reread it and post it on the Ad School FB page for feedback. I'm so impressed at the way HH took my pallid words and made them sparkle with her word choices. I went through her suggestions, underlined the power words, then worked to get them into what might be the final version.

 

The squirrels were back today. This one spent a long time on the ground under the round feeder where the Sparrows tossed a whole lot of the cracked corn and birdseed from the feeder. The rabbits have discovered the bounty and now show up after dark to eat their own share of the largesse leaving their calling cards behind. This morning I also saw a lot of tufts of rabbit fur in the snow. I don't know, maybe they had a brawl out there last night.

 

After lunch but before writing I drew yesterday's gratitude journal page. I'm having so much fun going through the next manuscript. And yesterday was the day of so many squirrels. Durwood would have had a fit. He had a vendetta against squirrels gathering around to eat the birdseed.

 

I went back to Dr. Seuss's Book of Animals and found this picture of Horton who heard a Who. I liked that he was peeking at the edge of the page. It's hard to see but he's a very light blue.

 

And I knitted a few rounds, okay, only two rounds on the Llama Gathering Hat tonight but I was watching Finding Your Roots. It's a pattern that I have to think about when I'm knitting and I have to look at what I'm doing because the yarn is a little splitty. But I'm not going to let myself cast on another bulky yarn hat until I've finished this not-bulky one. I will allow myself to crochet on the not-really-a-Wooble though. A girl has to have something to look forward to.

 

I spent most of the afternoon working to integrate the two pieces of manuscript into one document so that I can add in the extra parts that will make it one story. I have a couple pages of notes. That should help. I'm not sure how I'll do it but I'm sure going to try. No, not try, work on it. It sure is handy having these old manuscripts laying around to play with.

--Barbara