This week kinda flew by but, somehow, I felt like I spent most of it spinning my wheels. It’s fine. Sometimes, you just have to accept being stuck in neutral for a while. If I could park my anxiety, that would be grand … but, of course, that’s one thing that always stays in high gear. Sorry, I’ll stop now. I really need to stay away from vehicular metaphors because what I know about cars is what the average five-year old knows about cars.
Query-wise, it was a pretty boring week. I got 2 form rejections, and one slightly less form rejection from an agent who said my book was too long for her to consider but that I could resubmit if I were to cut it down to 95K words or less. So that’s a fun thing I might end up trying to do in the near future. First, though, I have to finish my current WIP. I am about 2.5 chapters away from a complete first draft. I won’t bore you with the details here … mostly because I plan to bore you in a full-length post later on.
Lately, I’ve fallen down a weird and fun (weirdly fun?) rabbit hole, reading books about the history of magic and magic secret societies. Currently devouring Fraces Yates’ book on the Rosicrucians, which is opening up all sorts of rabbit hole tangents. My Wikipedia search history this week was a wild ride! It’s putting me in a Gothic-y kind of mood, which is somewhat helpful for my current WIP, but may also inspire future projects.
Sorta-not-entirely-unrelated tangent, I ended up watching Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty ballet movie this week and it was really cool. It’s on YoutTube in case you’re interested. (Be warned, it’s nearly 2 hours long.) I kept seeing snippets of it on my Instagram discovery page and finally decided to look it up and I regret nothing.
I got to have a little thrift adventure with one of my dear friends this week, which was a blast. I found a few cute things though, sadly, the jewelry was NOT giving. I despair of finding any cute rings. Just kidding. A thrifter never despairs. Hope springs eternal. The thrift gods will provide.
I’ve been trying to find time to go and pick out new plants for my garden for a month now, and I’m hoping that this weekend I’ll finally get some. I don’t have a plan or much of a vision, apart from wanting to fill some ‘dead’ space in my plant beds. My philosophy is to keep adding a few new perennials every year and hope that, in 20 years’ time, I’ll have a lush, verdant, overgrown oasis. Like a house, a garden takes YEARS to come together. Don’t be fooled by those perfect photos you see on social media and in coffee table books; none of those spaces happened overnight.
Have a great weekend!