Recovery
Ahoy! Good news! The snot tide had turned and I can now breathe through my nose (mostly). Just in time for the weekend, during which I plan to continue devouring the books of my new author friends (reading Mary Modern right now--so, so good) and maybe bake some more (funny how the weather change makes me want to stoke the oven's fire.)
I'm hard at work submitting a just-completed story to literary magazines so that in a few months' time I can begin to get rejected. A day without rejection is a day I feel less like a writer and more like some normal person.
When the weekend ends so too does my reprieve. Then it's back to book #2 for the polishing draft, when the prose gets polished and I check to make sure I haven't changed a character's name mid-narrative (why yes, I have done that before and no, I really didn't notice for some time). I hope to finish by Thanksgiving but it's a lofty goal.
Until then, let the reading/baking/relaxing begin!