The butt of the earth?

Is that where you end up when you fall off the face of the earth?

Anyway, the reason I’ve been so out of touch is that I have been working my fingers to the bone revising Book 2. But before you weep for my bony fingers, rejoice! For revising this book has reminded me how much I absolutely adore the process of revising.

I think I even blogged about it a couple of years ago, how much I enjoy the rewriting part of writing. But somehow, even though I’d put it out there on the internet, I forgot it in my brain (sort of like how I forgot that I used to be really afraid of earthquakes! so weird!). But going through the past few weeks of arduous revising has refreshed my mindgrapes. And so there it is: I love revising!

I’d been totally confused by the fact that writing the first draft feels like having my fingernails pulled off but I will happily sit at the computer rewriting it until my eyeballs dry up and fall out. But now the mystery is solved.

Last night, I sent off the draft of Book 2 to the Delightful Editor. So perhaps even now, she is reading this and thinking, “It’s a darn good thing you like revising, Alender.” But we aren’t going to worry about that. Or that fact that I misspelled the word “horror” and discovered it approximately 4 milliseconds after hitting send. (Everybody loves a good horro movie, right?)

Now that it’s sent off, I can attend to other exciting things like choosing a winner for my November contest and sewing stuff that I still owe from October. Oops, and mailing something I was supposed to mail last week. D’oh!

In other news, I have had a very fun and exciting day full of the happies. Here is my Joy List, in bullet-point format.

* My mommy is here visiting! This is very good news indeed.

* Through a totally spur-of-the-moment arrangement, my baby sister is also coming to visit for the weekend! She will be here tomorrow. I am super psyched about this. She’s never even met Winston!

* The holiday season is upon us! First Thanksgiving, then Christmas, or whatever you celebrate. This makes me tremendously cheerful. Almost unbearably so, depending on who you ask. I got out my USB Christmas tree today! It is very beautiful and classy.

* And lastly, I’m pysched about this latest Muppet video! The width might throw off my sidebar, but by gum, it’s worth it.

2 comments November 24th, 2009