spryng | Home again, home again

Lady's mom's kitties have grown a lot in a year. They're both incredibly lanky and the one (above in focus) is so much less skittish. Makes me want kitties. Maybe, someday.

This weekend was happy and good, except for the bout of horrible gut pain that afflicted me yesterday and Sunday. But I got to chase the ocean and flap at seagulls and just stand on a rock and feel the wet breeze deposit salt in my hair. It was good and refreshing and I already miss it. :<

Didn't do as much planning/editing/reading as I'd intended, but that's all right. I do that more in my day job, anyway, and I'll have plenty of time for that now. Because that's the other, major sad I has: no more internship. I kind of figured, of course, when the one agent left, but I'd hoped the remaining would need help. But no - it looks like she wants to get everything under control herself, which I understand. But still. :(

At least I learned a lot. And if nothing else, it motivated me to finalize the edits on GW and start querying, before which I had been reticent and/or terrified. It demystified the whole process and now I know that it's a matter of honing your query and targeting the right agents, not sending out thousands willy-nilly. Oh, and actually reading the submission guidelines.

So now tomorrow is June and I will set a new goal for that month and the coming July. Which is to bring out my undead assassins and get cracking on a new draft zero which has absolutely nothing to do with GW, since even working on that sequel was making me turn back and fiddle with the final draft too much. I'll revisit it in August or when I hear back from my remaining betas. In the meantime, I'm still much too close to it to do anything beneficial.