Riding Off Into The Moonset

(Well, I couldn't very well ride off into the sunset, now could I?)

It's getting close, minions. The second draft of Eighth Grade Bites is nearly finished. Yesterday I added scenes that needed to be added (but for one) and revised until my fingers were just stubs. Today the revisions will continue, of course (stubs or no).When I think this draft is nearly done, I'll set it aside and read something else for a week before reading EGB over again (without a red pen--that's scary). I'll just be reading it as if it were any other book. Hopefully I'll blow myself away. And then....well, I have some very hungry readers waiting to take a peek.

Here's hoping I don't disappoint.

I also completed my synopsis yesterday, based on some excellent advice I picked up from a fellow writer, Keith Cronin. Keith said to write one sentence that sums up what happens in each chapter and to develop paragraphs for each essential plot element. So I did. And, amazingly enough, this has got to be the best synopsis I've ever written. Thanks, Keith!

So as I stand now: synopsis, check...killer query, check...fantastic manuscript....working on it.