Monday, February 9, 2026

A Writing Work Day

I did a lot of writing work today. This morning while waiting for my critique Zoom to start, I got on
a chat with Kindle Direct Publishing because I'd unpublished Horizon and couldn't figure out how to republish it. I'd done it before but was just going about it all wrong. I chatted with a nice woman who told me that she'd try to help. While she was typing, I realized that in order to republish the book I needed to go back to the "Create" button and start all over. *head, slap* So I thanked her and went about my day. By that I mean, after lunch I republished Horizon paperback and eBook so they're linked on my sales page eventually. I also unpublished and republished Better Than Mom's while the correct way to do it was on my mind.

 

 

Then I copied and pasted the next pages for submission to cda for critique for next Monday. And I transferred the edited pages from today into version 2 of the manuscript. I also did some creative rearranging keeping in mind the comments that the "professional" made about the first 3 pages a couple weeks ago.

 

The flower of the day is Sweet Pea. As usual, I was intimidated by the challenge but slowed down, examined the example closely, and didn't do too badly. My Grandma Angermeier had sweet peas growing on the bank where the driveway curved around to the garage and I loved them. We could pick them without getting into too much trouble.

 

The snow plow and sand truck finally came by today scraping a little of the compacted snow off the street and into the end of the driveway. It wasn't much of a drift, more like a little hump, but I went out with the shovel anyway and shoved it all to either side of the driveway. It was heavy but not worth getting the snowblower out for.

I portioned out the rest of the butternut squash soup and put it into the freezer. There was a lot left for one little old lady to eat. Especially with the amount of butter in that soup. Although when I was looking for a soup recipe I found a WW one for pulled chicken with poblano peppers that might be calling my name. The chicken and poblano soup is very tasty, pretty simple to make, and zero points per serving. A much better deal.

--Barbara 

1 comment:

Aunt Barb said...

Sounds like there's more to novel writing than just writing. You're so good at mastering all that "extra" stuff. Your sweet peas are very sweet 😋.