I’ve far from hit the schedule I wanted, but I’m still in a good mood. Why, you (don’t) ask? Because Firebird’s Wish is in good shape, I’m starting to love it again, and I can go home and visit my family without feeling like the book is looming over my head, begging to be done (which was the November sitch).

I am at a good point to go away for eight days and enjoy myself. This is an excellent place to be.

So while chapter two still needs to be written, I have a fair idea that it will be. Perhaps even in longhand on a plane, though I suspect Curse of Chalion will take precedence.

But for now I must bake a suitcase and pack some macaroons.

Moving along. But mostly spent the night going back over one, rearranging this, highlighting that, and shuffling the deck a bit. Also began the first stage of my keeping cakes.

Off to bed.

I’ve created a private wiki for cataloguing data about the world of Ceoboraan.

This is proving to be addicting. But good. It’ll make my final revisions in January very thorough. At the same time, it’s pulling me away enough from the story that I’ll be able to revise without being so close to the characters.

Very likely this is how I will spend much of late January when I get around to PttD.

I made ice cream instead.

But I did brush up a scene in 23. That whole chapter is probably going to be hardest hit by line edits.

Hm. Tomorrow night. Right now I think my brain is relaxing from being in GOTTAWRITEGOTTAWRITE mode for the last six months.