From the time I roll out of bed, to the end of my day, I’m busy with my writing career. I do take weekends off, simply to detox from the five days before. I measure my progress in goals accomplished, not in the number of words down. I’m trying to put in more words per day, certainly, but that’s not the end all to this life. I found I’m working on three books at the same time anyway, so gave in to that irresistible impulse. In the morning I work on my crime thriller. In the afternoon I work on my sweet G-rated fantasy. In the evening I work on a complicated fantasy. I also read everyday, and, I do some editing.

My crime thriller stands at 90 pages, my G-rated fantasy stands at 75 pages, the complicated fantasy novel stands at 40 pages. Yesterday I managed five good pages on my crime thriller, three pages on my G-rated fantasy, and one page on the complicated fantasy. I edited 30 pages on a past project to take a creative break, sent out 40 queries, and read a chapter from a book I thought I should read. I have a theory going as to what makes a good book great, and going over great books; then good books and bad books, confirms what I had been thinking all along.
Of course the rejection slips are coming in, one, two at a time, but that’s to be expected. I’ll wait until next month before I do more agency research, and see if anybody new that’s real has opened their doors to my e-mail queries. No paper used. Green is good.

I took a tour of the WWW today, looked around, thinking many thoughts. I stopped over at the Self-publishing Hall of Fame. Not much new, but it’s a fun read. I read several other writer’s blogs, and I’m boring compared to them. It’s okay. I don’t mind. Read the industry news from several sites, and didn’t find anything I could use. I’ll work on chapter five of my crime thriller today. I have to go back a few pages and insert a little something that will help me out with the ending.