Toothpicks. T.O.M.D.

TOMD- Toothpicks of Mass Destruction. I wouldn't try to win a war using toothpicks as your only weapon but damn I also wouldn't want to walk across a battlefield of toothpicks. I got one implaed into my foot yesterday and I still can't walk after it being ripped out by the doctor. I'm supposed to be "soaking it" and watching for infection. Oh joy! The most random unfortunate things seem to happen to me, honestly. I was just getting ready for school and bam I have a piece of wood sticking out of my foot, how often does that just happen?! Oy. So basically today is going to be a slow one. Nevertheless yesterday turned out fairly productive.

I got to hear how my part of the Bach Double Violin Concerto meshes with the other soloist's part and it already sounds WAY COOL. Of course it helps that it is my favorite piece everrrr. she says I rush and I'm sure she's right so today I should probably practice with the metronome :-p bleck. However they seemed to line up decently and we didn't lose our spots hardly at all, so with hardwork it will sound gorgeous, of course then we have to work on dynamics and balancing with the rest of the orchestra but I'm super excited about it.

Beyond that I got to novel a ton which was a long road coming. I totally re-wrote the prologue to Home which was desperately needed. Given, it is still not quite how I want it, but it fits much better and makes a lot more sense, chapters one and two however still need the most work and I am working on sifting through them now. I was supposed to meet with my one and only first outside editor today but due to my foot killing from the toothpick incident I decided to hold off. I figure this way I'll be able to come up with some more guidlines for her as to what I'm looking for and what not. I really think that after this read-through and both of us editing the heck out of it and me taking the time to actually do the re-writes that need to happen and take care with it, the draft that comes out will be SPARKLETASTIC. I think honestly I could start looking for a publisher with the next draft and that's thrilling, it makes me motivated to not cut corners with it, to actually think about what needs to be furhter developed and re-worked and do that as opposed to just noting it and moving on.

Novels, violins and toothpicks, oh my.
God, no more toothpicks, but hopefully lots of the prior.


Loveeeee. ♥♥♥