CallaFirestormBW
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I'm dreading the coming months. I -despise- moving, and it's even more complicated since it looks like SR and I will be splitting our combined household of almost 15 years into two households this year (it's not a bad thing for us -- we're still companions and family... we may just not be living together for a little while, while SR sows some wild oats now that her offspring is fully grown and living in another state!). HOWEVER, despite it being a good thing, and something I think will be a lot of fun for her, I -hate- moving, and hate the whole process of having to find a place to move TO, and packing, loading, and unloading... YUCK. Anyway, I'm looking at new residences, and have become -very- active with two critique groups here in town that are SpecFic focused. It's forcing me to spend more time on my writing, since the groups meet a total of 3 times a month, and I have to have new work for each meeting. *grins* On the down-side, my new publisher purchased the option on the 3rd book of the trilogy I was writing, and purchased the 'backlist' titles as well (Book 1 and Book 2 that were already published by my previous publishers) on the premise that, come spring, they'd be releasing all three books as an "omnibus" volume -- all three books in a single volume. NOW, however, they've decided that they would prefer that I take the 850,000 words incorporated in the 3 volumes and "condense" it into a single book of ~250,000 words... in other words, re-write the entire story as a new, single book instead of a trilogy... and since they own it, if I don't, I'm considered in "breach of contract", since they're willing to release the 3rd portion of the story under their terms (which is how they get away with THEM not being in breach of contract) *sighs* Needless to say, July was interesting, and August looks like it will be full of interesting challenges as well... and I hope that I find the right place to move to by the time the October move date comes around. Calla
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*** Said to me recently: "Look, I know you're the "voice of reason"... but dammit, I LIKE being unreasonable!!!!" "Your mind is more interested in the challenge of becoming than the challenge of doing." Jon Benson, Bodybuilder/Trainer
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