Edits and More Fun

 10/4/20

Happy October everyone!  The leaves are changing, there's a nip in the air, and my AM alarm keeps going off before the sun rises.  After the hectic holidays, I'm looking forward to the chance to relax in the calm of autumn where the only thing I have to worry about is how much candy to buy this Halloween. 

Of course, I just bought a new house, so figuring out how to get it ready for winter is still stressing me out.  I had a long telephone call this morning with a prospective oil company (my heat is oil and there's a massive tank in my garage).  The poor lady had to explain where the gauge is to tell me how much oil is in my tank, and that the big red switch that says EMERGENCY is actually my burner switch.  As long as it's in the on position, just setting my thermostat will do all the work.  Phew.  Turns out, the only thing I need to worry about in regards to my oil is keeping an eye on that gauge, and when it gets too low, give the company a call. 

I also have to figure out where the turn off valves for the outdoor spigots are, but I think that's going to be a conversation with the neighbors sort of adventure.  Aside from that, my house is in good shape.  The new blinds were finally delivered (first ones delivered were wrong, so I had to re-order them) and will be installed this week.  The only other project I need to do is figure out how to anchor my new pantry to the stud in the wall, and then this house is as perfect as it's going to get! 

Which leaves me much more time to focus on my writing.  I didn't get as far as I would have liked in Dragon Spy.  The prologue is done and the chapters renumbered, but I need to get cracking on the next scene.  The story is going to abruptly switch to Alloy's perspective, which I have been looking forward to writing for months, but everything else going on in my life keeps getting in the way (like calling oil companies this morning instead of writing). 

Also, edits keep popping up.  Today's addition to my editing pool is the first round for A Little Fairy Dust, my fairy tale anthology.  While the individual stories inside aren't too long, combined this is the largest single book I've ever written.  I have no idea how much time it's going to take to finish the edits, so working on them is my priority at the moment.  Which means Magnified, which I have the pre-edits for, is getting pushed aside again.  Hopefully I'll be able to finish both sets of edits soon, so I can return to writing again.