New Year Thoughts, Presents, Rewrite, Conventions

[mmerriam]

I think the reason I have a hard time going into the New Year with a positive attitude is that I start every New Year:

1: Exhausted from the annual Christmas holidaze trip,
B: Sick from whatever disease I caught in Oklahoma, and
Thirdly: Stressed about the impending income tax season.

It would be nice if at least one of those would skip a year.

Bestest Christmas Present Evah: careswen registered me for a storytellers workshop.

I've hit a dead stop in the rewrite. I need a scene, or a similar scene, from the earlier drafts to happen, but the new draft, while stronger in all other ways, doesn't really support this scene, or a variation thereof. Once I figure out what to do about this, I should be able to slam the rest of the rewrite out in short order.

I saw the panel proposals for Minicon. Nothing really tripped my trigger. There are a couple of panels I wouldn't mind being on, but nothing jumped out at me. I might just sign up for a reading this year and leave it at that.

Comments

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Always good advice, which is why this draft is the strongest yet. I've cut, killed, and combined my large cast into something manageable and sleek.

I have an idea about how to handle that problem. I was thinking too big earlier. I just need one thing from the scene to happen, and I'm pretty sure I can roll it into a scene I just finished.

And if it doesn't work, I'm no worse off.

[careswen.livejournal.com]

Let's discuss tonight over dinner! Maybe I can help.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Works for me.