The weekend looms.

And I think it'll be lots of fun, but it's going to be super busy.

Saturday has two birthday parties - one for Penny's friend Savannah, and a combined party for Jeremy and Elizabeth. They overlap, so we're likely to be a bit late to Jeremy and Elizabeth's party, but worse things have happened, I suppose.

(Penny is going to be so high-strung on sugar before the day is over that she's not going to know what to do with herself.)

Sunday will be somewhat more laid back, but my parents are due back from their vacation this weekend, so I imagine that we'll be visiting them, or else they'll be visiting us. It will have been more than two whole weeks since they last saw Penny, after all!!!

Actually, since we need to do a Sam's Club run soonish, we may drop Penny off with my folks and let them ply her with still more sugar while we do the shopping.

And somewhere in there, we need to do the regular weekly shopping and chores.

Whee!

I finished my story yesterday. I think. It's pretty long - about 11,000 words, which is longer than "Dawning Hope," which was my longest story before that. For perspective, if you're not a wordcount junkie, the usual lower limit given on novels is about 50,000 words.

It's not quite done, because "Mephis Metamorph" is the most useless, bland, boring, and uninformitive title I've ever come up with in my life; really, it was the first thing I thought of just so I'd have something to name the file. It desperately needs a title with more kick.

And I'm trying to decide if it needs an epilogue, or if that would just ruin the impact of what I've already got.

I need to tweak a couple of things, fix some inconsistencies I noticed last night when I did my read-through (though I went back immediately to fix the problem where I described a person as wearing an eyepatch, and then kept referring to their eyes, plural).

At some point, I'd like to get some volunteer readers, especially some men, because this is an extremely male story, in ways that even "Dawning Hope" couldn't touch, and I'd like to know if I at least came close to a decent perspective. And also because it's... kind of a prequel to the events of the novel that K.T.'s working on, and I'd like to find out if the story would stand alone, or if it needs the backdrop of K.T.'s novel to be a decent story.

The thing that amazes me, really, is that I wrote it all in about two weeks. Pretty fast work, for me. If I could guarantee 4500 words or more each week, I wouldn't have any problem at all churning out a few novels a year.

Cool.

--Liz