Happy Holidays!

Hey everyone! I might get on sometimes this weekend, but with the holidays and having to clean up the house, who knows?

I don't have much news about BE, but I do have a set idea for my next book once I'm completely finished with BE. I'll get a synopsis up sometime after the holidays.

So you're all caught up. Everyone have a great holiday and be careful!

Happy Thanksgiving everybody.

-Jessie

This Happy.

Well, it's official. The very last chapter of BE was finished last night at exactly 12 a.m! It's done! I still have the epilogue and all the other work, but it's over! From here on out it's editing. And I am amazing at editing...it's what prevented me from ever finishing a book.

I still have to find the other chapters but I don't care because right now I'm happy!

This happy.

- Jessie

Come Out Come Out Wherever You Are

Yellow Notebook: 1       Jessie: 0

I will find you Notebook. And when I do....you'll regret getting lost! I vow it!

I suppose in the meantime I can start typing up my other  chapters....my deadline for Thanksgiving is quickly drawing to a close. Must finish.....!

I also read somewhere that agents generally don't read queries until after the holidays, which is perfect. I'll have a solid month or two of editing so Being Evil will be ready for queries in the New Year!

-Jessie

I Could Have Better News

With me not having my computer for something along the lines of three weeks, I fell behind with typing up all the chapters I wrote in various notebooks. I just now decided to at least sort everything out so I can start typing it up. And wouldn't you know it, I'm missing a notebook.

I am really angry right now. I don't want to rewrite those chapters, especially because one was already half-typed up and I can't remember half of what I wrote. Downside of writing while half-asleep.

I'm still hoping that maybe I'll find that notebook and it'll have the two chapters in it. But I am just so not in the mood. All my hard work, almost done, and now it turns out that yet again I have to say 3 more chapters to go.

It absolutely sucks. Excuse me, I have to go tear apart my living room...

-Jessie

A Comprehensive History Of Being Evil

 Mood: Kitten-bear. I am pretty much stuck in reminiscing. *Sob*. Just kidding.

Yes! My Laptop is officially and completely decontaminated. Viruses couldn't stand up to my awesome powers! And I had help...

Anyway, I finally have complete computer access holed up in my room so I don't have to venture out in the public that is my house because somehow there is always fifty people invading our space.

The bad part? I have about nine chapters I now have to type up onto my computer. I hate transcribing my writing. (That's the right word, right?)

The good part? Duh, duh, duh! I only have the last chapter and the epilogue to write before the first draft is completely done. That's it, it's over!

This has been a really long process for me. I started the idea for my book in May or June and wrote three chapters sometimes in June that later became Chapters 1,4, and 5. I put it on hold for a while when I went on this psychotic rampage, writing a whole lot of random story-starts that didn't go anywhere. I wasn't really focused, although I stayed in my room almost all summer working on another book I was hoping to publish. I got about nine chapters done at that book before I decided I just didn't know enough to try and create a complex world that has issues in religion and society, and culture. Plus, way too many weapons I had to name and describe.

From there, that story was moved to the back burner and I decided to focus on Being Evil. This was either late July or early August....or maybe the middle of August. I started writing, but not like crazy. It wasn't until I showed my friend did I really start moving. She loves the book and threatens me with bodily harm if I take more than a week to write the next chapter. I only take two days to write, the other five are for whining and slacking.

And of course, the rest is history. I worked my butt off, probably wrote some questionable material (ready for a rewrite chapter 2?) but now look! Three months later and I'm almost done! A more than NaNoWriMo, but still, not too shabby.

And now, my writing is almost coming to an end. It'll be completely finished and I'll be forced to bid adieu to Eric.

Oh who am I kidding. After I finish, that's when the real work starts!

-Jessie