There are actually a few things I’ve been working on today. The first is my dial-up connection.
Yesterday, my phone cord and extender connector died. That meant I had to get a new phone cord long enough to reach from the computer to the phone jack in another room. Apparently whoever designed this house never thought of this room as being used for an office (probably because there’s a very small built-in office area by the laundry room), so there’s not a phone jack in here. The phone jack in the small office area doesn’t work. It would cost the same to get a new jack put in as it would to fix the old one. But I digress. I got the new cord and connector and then some. I now have a phone on my desk so I don’t have to jump and run if/when my phone rings. My other answering machine was fried in a thunderstorm sometime last year, so I now have a working answering machine as well. That bodes very well for me so the editors/agents can call me now. Hey, I can dream, right?
I’ve also been working on my next website review, which is almost done. (I’m sure my editor for that would be very glad to know that, if he were to ever read this, that is.)
Even more, though, I’ve been working on a work-in-progress that I’ve let sit for a while. I found out, through some judge’s comments, that what I was calling a contemporary romance would actually be classified as romantic suspense. Now that I know that, any time I add anything to it, I find myself thinking, “Does this work for suspense?” I think I need to forget about that and focus on the romance. I can go in and edit/tweak any suspense stuff later. Right now, I’m sitting at almost 8,000 words.
Other than submitting requested queries, that has me covered for the past couple days. How’s it going for you? Been working?
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