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So I have not been preparing my Tuesday prompts and am not busy teaching, but that doesn’t mean I am just sitting around twiddling my thumbs. I have been steadily working on two separate projects. One is getting the second of my Student of Jump books (No-time Like the Present) ready for publication at the end of this month. I just finished what is my pretend final edit. The one I convince myself is the last one needed. But in a week or so it will go through another which will no doubt result in finding so many errors I will be a basket case for a few days, losing all confidence before I do another edit which will do the exact opposite, and I will split the difference and feel fairly confident that I have taken care of all I can. I have my absolutely wonderful beta reader tackling it right now, which will provide the impetus to make changes and edit again.
The other project is The Handbook of Narrative Frameworks for Novels & Short Stories. This is a gathering of the narrative mode posts I have been doing since February 2013. After pulling them together, I edited, added, and am currently creating worksheets that will help make use of the frameworks each one provides for novel and story writing. All and all I have been busy and since school has let out, intensely content finding myself immersed in my writing, spending time with my family, and taking care of those little jobs that always wait for summer to come.
