To Be or Not To BE

So my family reunion is coming up.  Nothing huge, just the most awesome family on the planet getting together for a full weekend.  Last year we started a tradition of helping the host family out by doing a little auction with donations from us family.  The proceeds go to the family reunion costs for that year.  Well I donated drawings of our family that I drew last year and I have been working on it for the last couple days because our reunion is at the end of July.

Point I am getting at, is that the thought has crossed my mind, as it has I am sure, so many others. "Why bother even going back to working on my book?  Why bother, I have more time to work on other things I love, like drawing."  NO!!

You can not think like that.  If you don't get it done, edit and send it out to anyone to get the process started, who will read it?  Who will know of your awesome idea?  NO ONE!    Snap out of it.  It is ok to take a hiatus every now and again.  It's healthy  to do something different work on a different, no-writing project every now and again.  But to completely stop is murder.  You heard me, MURDER.  You can't just let the story end. 

If everyone who used that excuse, we wouldn't have a wheel, light bulb, computers, or anything useful, because it took time, energy and concentration.  It took the sacrifice of that which we love.   Think of your future book lovers.  Now think of the fact that they aren't there until you get your book out there.

So that's my schpeel.  Take it as you will.

Destiny :)

Survey

So I have a survey that I posted on facebook for everyone that I know to take.  I am asking for the publics opinion on cover ideas.  I already have idea pictures and I want to know what will catch the audience, without having a name yet.  If you are willing to take the survey, I would appreciate it.  Here is a link to the event.  https://www.facebook.com/events/393971154074568/

You go to each picture which has two pictures on it that are labeled a letter.  There are a few that are in there more than once up against different pictures.   Just comment below with the appropriate letter of your choice. 

Also in a couple of days when I have gotten enough feedback, I will go through and pick the covers that were chosen the most and post them again, against each other and then you can vote for the best out of those.  It's a trial and error survey so bare with me on it.  I appreciate your help. 

PS  I will also being doing another one soon for Titles.  I'm squaring that up and once I get it done I will post another facebook even or something to that effect that you can vote in.

This is just an example of the photos. 

Almost Done!

I was editing over the weekend and I came to a conclusion:  I am almost done!  What an awesome feeling that is when you can look at your work and think, hey I can send it to my beta readers in probably only one or two more months.  This is awesome.   Now granted,  someone may look at the fact that I put one or two months right there, but for me that's pretty good with being a mom, full time worker, and writer all at the same time.  Everyone knows, the more things you have going on in life, the less time you have to spend on each individual one. 
I have my work separated into two piles.  One is my completed work, as in edited half of the book.  It's in my favorite color folder, blue.  That means I have gone through it, both with myself and my writers group has eyed it over and it's been edited. 
The half that I am still currently editing is in my black folder, meaning I am still editing it, between me and my writers group.  My book right now is ruffly 255 pages and when I have 150 in the blue, and already made my written edits on another 50 in my black folder (just needing to fix the typed version), that means I only have around 50 pages left to edit. 
I already have my beta readers on board (my entire dentist office), that means I can get it out soon.  My original goal at the beginning of the year was to get it sent out to the publishers by the end of the summer, and then about two months ago, after camp Nano, I changed it to sending it out to the beta readers by the end of the summer instead.  So far I feel that I am going to make my goal!