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What I’m Reading
It’s been an “all business” reading week. I’m zooming through one of my beta-reading novels, an LGBT YA story, and slowly reading through my own BROKEN THINGS work in progress as part of my revisions.
So, nothing much to say over here.
What I’m Writing
I’m still hammering away at my editing goals for March. I updated the post because I’m now finished the scene outline, and I’ve merged the tense rewrite and read-through into one ubertask: reading through it all, rewrite it both for tense and voice, and keep an eye out for missing pieces.
It’s slow work. I’ll be glad when I can get this book out to betas, it’s a tricky one to get right. BROKEN THINGS is definitely the trickiest thing I’ve worked on: the voice is tricky, the themes are hard to tackle, and it’s a real challenge to build such an intelligent, one-step-ahead-of-everything antagonist.
What Inspires Me
My writing friends have been having an absolutely amazing week, and that’s been keeping me inspired.
Rock on, writing friends. :) You know who you are, and you’re all amazing.
What Else I’ve Been Up To
Running Running Running Running…
Fretting that they’re changing the design of the pound coin because urgh, I hate change.
And today there’s talks that the UK budget raise eBook VAT from 3% to 20%, a 17% rise.
So it’s one of those “I should just go back to bed” news days, I think. But I’ll be following the news with interest today to see how this all works out — i t seems like the kind of change that could hit ebook authors hard.
Is it just me, or does that new £1 coin look a lot like a Euro? I have a Greek Euro which is that exact shape and colour (minus the Queen). Hmm….
Ebook VAT at 20%?! Noooo! :(
Editing is the trickiest part for me, and I can imagine tense rewriting takes forever! (I once manually changed an entire MS from first to third person…ugh.) I’m happy to beta read for you when you need readers! :)
Thank you so much Emma! I’ll definitely give you a shout when I next need betas. :D You’re so kind.
It looks like the 20% VAT rise didn’t happen. Thank god!
Good to hear the government are focusing on the most important things. *rolls eyes* Honestly, I give up with the lot of them. Their education policies are driving me nuts as it is.
I completely agree. :(
It is always great when your writer friends have a good week! One of mine just got a book deal and I couldn’t be more excited for her!!
Oooh, that’s really awesome!
I was sad when they got rid of the pound note. Pound coins just add to the change in your pocket. At least you could fold notes. They may not be as durable, but they’re a lot easier and lighter to carry around. *sigh*. They still use dollar bills here in the US. You can get special commemorative dollar coins, but they’re not general currency.
Change isn’t always a good thing. I agree with Robin, is this really the most pressing need in the UK right now? Seriously?
Pound notes would be SO USEFUL. I wish they were a thing here, I much prefer carrying notes to carrying change, but I guess the UK culture is very focused on having a pocketful of change.
I’m torn on the currency debate. We have $1 coins, but they haven’t really caught on, except with kids who love heavy piggy banks and pirate treasure ;)
Changing your tense AND voice? Good luck! That sounds very tricky, indeed, but I’m sure you’ll get it done. Just keep at it!
(I’m late again, very late, sorry… semifinals weeks at school just passed..) I agree with ms. Addams, it does indeed look a lot like a euro, and it horrifies me… In my opinion, euro’s look hideous whereas the pound coins were still pretty… I always loved the dragon on it in particular. And rewriting the tense throughout the whole book seems like a really big job… Good luck!