New Year’s Day

It’s a cold night. The new year started out gray and cold, with a few snow flurries. I hope that’s all we get.

I’ve spent most of the evening dinking around with this manuscript, trying to figure out how to rewrite and refine the sections I wrote last night.

When I get a hand free, I’ll post the photos I shot with my iPhone at the Rudolfo Anaya monument in Santa Rosa the other day. If you haven’t read Bless Me, Ultima, put that on your list of New Year’s resolutions. It’s terrific.

Emily

Starting the new year right

I got home from New Mexico at 4:30 p.m., went to dinner and picked up some groceries at 5, started working on the third draft of the novel at 9, and greeted the new year with a printout at 3 a.m.

Not bad. The last 20 pages or so will need some more tinkering, but considering how many changes and additions I’ve made since the first draft, I’m pleased.

Happy new year, kids. I’m going to bed for a couple of hours before I head to work.

Emily