I’m late today because I went to the Dallas Zoo as a belated part of my birthday celebration. I enjoy learning more about the animals, but it’s a bit overstimulating, so I needed to unwind to feel more like myself and less like I needed to sleep for twelve hours.

News:

Nothing to report this week.

Works in Progress:

I received my edits for May Cooler Heads Prevail, and I think I’ll need to sit with them a while to figure out what to do to fix a few of those issues. I also noticed that I gave her the penultimate rather than the final version, because I am a bobo brain, so maybe I’ve already fixed a few of the issues. I’ll get to this one either before I edit In the Dollhouse We All Wait or after, depending on when I receive those edits.

I’m at 118K words today on Never & Forever (Meridian Book 8). Because of the zoo visit, I’ll probably not do a whole 3K words today, but I’ll shoot for hitting 120K. I don’t know what the scenes after this long one will take… Might have to expand the end count to 135K or 140K. I don’t think the denouement is very long, but the next big scene is significant. Still looking to finish around Thanksgiving weekend. I’m really ready to be done, though.

Books I’m Reading:

Raising Loki: A Memoir by Elliot Manarin
Rose Madder by Stephen King

Things I’m Listening To:

Halloween playlist
Silent Hill playlist

Things I’m Watching:

Matlock series
CSI: NY series
CSI series
SWAT series
NCIS series
America’s Got Talent series
Great British Baking Show series

Poem of the Week:

the shadow right behind
the back of my sordid mind,
a tenebrous reflection
of my moral dereliction.
shall we dance the waltz
on every last one of my faults?
or would you rather sip tea
with the two-face you see?