I think I'm getting beat into the ground what with school and work and soccer and writing. I'm tired and worn out. I won't say much about school except to say I'm frustrated. I like the Freud, though. A lot. And Chris Baty of NaNoWriMo was fabulous and his book No Plot? No Problem was great, too. Monday I had to read for school, Tuesday, I had to go to school. Wednesday we celebrated my father's birthday which means I organized everything etc, and of course, had to socialize instead of write. After that I had to read for school and try to work on the Shards of Crimson galleys. Last night I worked on the outline for Scandal so that I wouldn't wallow today. But when I got home, I had to set up my son's wireless Nintendo DS, and naturally Windows Firewall made it too freaking hard. But success after not too much trouble. I swear, if I had the money I'd get a Mac.

Also, I should officially say that my agent search was over a while back. I've signed with Kristin Nelson of the Nelson Literary Agency. A good thing, although it was almost a wasn't thing.

Scandal (nee The Rake) is coming along well I think. I'm maintaining word count, and the story is complexifying into something I'm really excited about. This was after I was advised by my agent to just start over. Ouch. That hurt, but I needed to hear it. I knew it already, but the last year-of-the-black-hole had me totally confused and lost. Never a good thing. So, I got a good hard kick in the pants to mostly put it back the way it was, only better. Which seems to be what's happening. My option period for Possession is up, I believe, on October 12, so still waiting on that. No word on that. I spend undue amounts of time imagining how I'll take the news that he hates it. After I have Scandal whipped into shape, I have to do Bloodhand. I got excellent feedback from my agent, but I've hardly had time to do more than skim.

My son has a soccer game tomorrow and right now I have to go cook dinner. I may just let him eat cake.