Here we go again...

The voices as awoken again. It wasn't really my plan. I was supposed to take a break and help my colleague with her text. Not start something new. But when I heard about this short story competition the voices just started babbling. I can't ignore them.

”Alltså, jag vill verkligen inte.”
”Vaddårå?”
”Jag har verkligen ingen lust att gå, bara.”
”Vad som helst kan hända! Lev lite!” Tova armbågade henne i sidan.

("I really don't want to."
"Why?"
"I really just don't feel like it."
"Anything can happen! Live a little!" Tova nudged her in the side.)

I really don't have the time. The summer novella is coming back from the editor any day now and when it does I need to start editing. Deadline for this competition is August 1. It's only 12k characters including spaces. That's really nothing. So... Let's do it!

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The inbetween

I sent the novella to the editor last week. I've heard it should be finding its way back to me next week. I haven't opened the document since then. I found I cannot bare it. The last two chapters were written in the middle of the night, stressing over the deadline and perhaps under the influence of wine. It might just be crappety-crap. I'm sure I will have to rewrite the ending and the sex. The sex might not even be regarded as sex, because it's just implied. But in the end I actually liked my characters, though they were too silent in the beginning and only opened up to me and each other in the last pages. Seriously, why not tell me everything at once? I don't like surprises as an author.

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But they are now more alive, of course, and more lovable thanks to their flaws. My perfectly unperfect characters.

Now the waiting. I'm helping a fellow author with her text in the meantime. It's more fun than taking apart my own. :P

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Deadline is coming

Deadline for the Summer-short I'm working on right now is fast approaching. It's on Sunday, and it's not only supposed to be finished, but preferably also beta read and edited. I'm not sure I'm gonna make it. This week is really hectic to begin with. My oldest daughter turned five on Tuesday, so celebration was in order. Baking and hosting ensued. Tomorrow I'm going back to the hospital to remove a screw from my ankle and I'm not sure how long it will take of my day apart from the commute. Hopefully I'll get in early so I'm home early. On Saturday my dad is coming up from Stockholm to celebrate the daughter and on Sunday we're having the kiddie's party for her friends. More baking is required. Sleep is for weaklings, right?

I'm glad that the story is moving fast forward regardless of me being quite stressed out about it. I've found a title! Yey! I've gotten my first snogging scene down. I'm 8,3 k in and this is what I'm going to be working on today:

I'm phsyched!

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That feeling

You know when you start to write that one scene that changes everything? The one when the characters suddenly notices one another and nothing will ever be the same after it? That's the feeling I've had since the weekend. And I've been writing. I starting to like my story! Hurray! This might actually be good stuff! I feel like I need to sit down with my MMC and interview him. Apparently he's been left at the alter, or something equally horrible. I had no idea. The characters are starting to talk to me! Hurray! Onwards!

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