"Hey, Don't Write Yourself Off Yet..."

Check out "The Middle" in the player by Jimmy eat World for swingy feel good rock.

I thought I was near the end of the process with "Dirt Nap", otherwise known as novel #1, but it turns out I'm back in the middle. I thought I was done. I've been querying it, but now feel it isn't ready.

I had an "incident" a couple of months ago, where the whole manuscript, which I had been keeping on an online server "in case", got eaten by said server. Poof. Gone. No, I hadn't backed it up anywhere else (just don't go there with me -- it's over ok?). Anyway, weeks went by while tech support issued occasional emails on their lack of progress at restoring my entire vaporized novel. I was a basket case. When I finally got it back it was imbued with a karmic haze of perfection. It was the one that almost got away. Huge!

Now I'm thinking I have more revising to do, make that knowing. It's good, I like it anyway, but it needs to be even more awesome. That's what I'll be working on, "awesomeizing."

By the way, Trusty Pam and I got the bikes up to 30 mph on a downhill today, and 27 on the flat shoulder of Jackson Ave. This is impressive, not even taking into account my bike, festooned with a handlebar hula girl and giant obnoxious bikebell is to bikes what the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile is to cars. What the heck, play "Everybody Get Dangerous" again too!