Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Waxing Moon

Saturn Retrograde

Cloudy and mild

Thanks for all the good wishes yesterday.  I had a nice, low-key birthday with family and some friends.  A good way to start the newest year of my life.  I’m definitely more optimistic this year than I was last year.  Last year for my birthday, I was still in post-flood trauma, in Vermont in a rented car, and hadn’t yet bought my new VW (which is the best car I’ve ever had in my life).  I loved being in Vermont, but I was still in such shock (and little did I knew in a few short weeks we’d have to deal with an even worse flood) that I couldn’t really deal.  This year, in spite of feeling as though the world is headed for Apocalypse, I’m a bit more optimistic about my personal journey.  I haven’t quite decided if I hope the Riders pass me by or if I’m going to set a trip wire, but we’ll deal with that when it happens.

Good day’s work on the thriller.  And good day’s work honing the Tracking Medusa query letter.  I’ll keep putting the final changes into the Medusa manuscript today in and around working on the sci-fi horror novella.  I need to finish the first draft this weekend, so I have a few days to revise it.  I’m playing with some concepts that people are either going to love or the concepts will hit a nerve and people will flinch – that’s what I want.  We’ll see what happens.  Heck, I’M flinching as I write some of the scenes.  And the next assignment from Confidential Job #1 arrived – I plan to work on it this weekend.