This is just like my posting sabbatical on the Well Fed Writer on a Budget blog (www.wellfedwriteronabudget.blogspot.ca). It has been years. I hope to change that, since I don't have much to do except more editing. That gets rather dull, so I take breaks often. Look for more stuff on here as the days progress.

It's coming down to the wire

Matthew the editor is finally working on the last four pieces of the Bonbons collection. I should have something back from him in a couple of weeks. I'll implement the changes and post the whole busines on the http://www.bonbonsandbitterpills.com/ site.

Trial Balloons

Okay. The stories are done. Complete. Finished. I've started to email them to people I trust to read and give me their take on what they got out of the story in question. So far the reviews have been very positive with people asking to read more of my stuff. Now if only a paying editor, or an agent would come across my prose, I'd be laughing.

Enough is enough already

Ok that's it! I've had enough of editing for the rest of my life. I was working on a couple of stories, doing a copy edit. I changed a word here, deleted a phrase there, and rewrote a sentence or two when it hit me. I could go on like this forever and never be done. I decided to let the stories stand as they are. I mean enough already!

Don't You Just Hate it When....

Don't you just hate it when just as  you think you're finished with a project  you find more to do. Now I love writing, it feels like it's the right thing for me to do, but implementing my editor's suggestions is tiring. I've been working on this collection of stories for two years. I've pared it down to 10. But even at that number the work is almost overwhelming. Four more to go, as in four more stories to edit. I've been living with them for a while and I just want them done and posted online. Is that too much to ask?

More on editors

I've tried several editors from the Editors Association of Canada web site. They all seem very nice, but pricey. I lucked into my editor in this way. He's local so we can meet and just chew the fat about my writing and where particular stories are heading, versus where I want them to go. We've got a great rapport. Although he's not cheap, I wouldn't trade him in for the world. He has helped bring my writing to a higher level. And I swear he has ESP: not a bad thing for an editor to have. So if you come across someone like this in your editor search, hang on to him/her for dear life. Your writing will flourish.

Editors

Editors are really just like any other people, with one exception: they're psychic. How else can I explain their intuitive sense of what an author's story really means on a deeper level. That kind of psychic I can handle. On another note, what ever happened to The Amazing Kreskin? Maybe he turned to editing.