Words Written: “What Price Beauty?” redraft: 1640

Wow. My brain was mush after yesterday’s word count. Phae read it last night, I made edits this morning, and it’s been sent. It’s 8000 words. Egads.

Ken was so sweet about it. I felt awful that I abandoned him, but he kept telling me not to feel guilty and to get the writing done because that’s what I was here for.

He left early this morning. He plans to play around on the fun back roads and end up in Sacramento for the weekly dinner get-together. He’ll head home tomorrow.

Now I need to get cracking on the second anthology story rewrite. But I’d rather take a nap. Oh, woe is me.

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I ended up napping. It became a necessity, and it helped a lot.

We went out to dinner tonight to celebrate Phaedra’s novel contract (her first sale, a two-book deal). I have lots of yummy shrimp scampi for breakfast tomorrow. Mmmmm.

I didn’t get as far on the story as I’d have liked, but I did okay. It’s finally moving. I’ll finish it up tomorrow morning/early afternoon, and have Phaedra and Louisa read through it. I can mail it as late as Friday morning, before the Novel Workshop starts.