I have finally been able to sit down at the computer and work on polishing the draft of my latest book. I hadn’t looked at it in about six weeks and I was good to see that I still liked the story and didn’t need to make too many corrections.

Funny thing about holidays, they tend to throw you off schedule. I forgot today was Tuesday. I’m hoping I can finish all the chores I have to do before next week, so I can get myself back on track. I have a rough draft to start polishing.

You may have noticed that I didn’t post last week. I have an excuse. I was out of the country on a long-anticipated trip to Europe to take a river cruise on the Danube to visit Christmas Markets. What a wonderful way to get into the holiday mood. And while I was traveling, I got a terrific idea for another story.

I’m enjoying taking a break from writing since I did finally finish the draft, and I’m running myself ragged catching up with Christmas preparations. No resting, I guess. Will pick the book back up and polish and edit after the holidays.

Good news. I finished the draft of my WIP yesterday, so now I can clean my office and get ready for the holidays. I’ll pick it back up and polish and edit in January.

I am within about 20 pages from the end. So, I guess I will have a happy Thanksgiving.

Yes, I know it’s Wednesday. My heat has been out for the past few days and my brain was numb. It is now fixed. I tried diligently to work on the book, but I will confess, it is very hard to be creative and type when your hands are cold.

I think the time change is catching up with me. Unlike normal people I do not get an extra hour of sleep, but I end up waking an hour early. Anyway, I need to be well rested, because I intend to finish this cursed book by Thanksgiving or die trying.

I’ve been having trouble posting to my author site the last few times, and yesterday I spent a good portion of the day at the dentist, so I’m just going to post that I’m alive and well and hope that this one goes through.

Looks like I’m close to catching up the number of pages that I lost when I accidentally deleted those pages. Of course, not having a word for word recollection of what I’d written, I have no idea whether it’s better or worse, or just the same. The good news is that my son the IT guy fixed it so that it is saved to the Cloud. Why he didn’t do that in the first place when he set up my new hard drive, I do not know.