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The following post is an official, bonafide whine...but it DOES have a resolution. Read at your own risk.

I have spent most of the weekend working on the query and synopsis for Three Wishes and I came to one pathetic conclusion. The book has MAJOR problems. For example, the book had no real ending, and to make things worse, I didn't know HOW I wanted it to end. There were also some other plot issues to contend with...points that needed to be tied up, characters that needed resolutions...etc. In a ft of frustration, I did the only thing i could think to do....I sat down and wrote the story outline..not from what I had already written, but how I wanted to story to go.

Lo and behold...not only did I manage to resolve all the plot points, but I also had...are you ready...AN ENDING!

I guesstimate that it's going to take me a couple of weeks to do the rewrites and final edits, but I can honestly say that now I will have a book that people will want to read. That's a pretty exciting thing.

In other news...I did a bunch of Spring cleaning..the kitchen, and bathroom are done and the living room is almost finished. I need to buy a new area rug for the living room floor, plus the floor could use a good scrubbing. Taylor said she would get to it next weekend if I don't do it first. Of course, if I do it, then I'm out of commission for the next three days...so as much as I would like it done earlier, I'm most likely going to wait til Taylor does it. After all, that's why I pay her the big bucks. LOL

Nothing new on the job front...'cept I have to do a shift bid for my new schedule. For those of you unfamiliar, a shift bid is when you pick a shift from a list and then when your turn comes, tell the HR people and hope someone who has more seniority didn't already pick it. Shouldn't be much of a problem since there is only one person ahead of me in seniority, but I have been burned in the past. Of course, it might help if I knew what the new shifts were. Won't find out til tomorrow, and the bid is probably Tuesday or Wednesday. Talk about lack of advanced notice.

Well, that's about it. As soon as I know something difinitive about my job, I'm sure I'll post it here...and I'll keep you in the loop about the progress on the latest round of rewrites of Three Wishes.

Wish me luck on both!

- posted by Kim @ 4:03 AM