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I continue to rewrite the novel and send it, chapter by chapter with crossed fingers, to my Pacing Mentor, then wait for her to point out all my shortcomings at which point I rewrite it again. It's moving forward, though, and I'm so proud of it. I'm probably at around the halfway point right now. Work has been slow. As I am primarily a stay-at-home parent, my work hours ramp up as my husband's slow down. Spring has not been good to him, nor by extension, to me. But soon, I'll get a lot more time at the computer and hope to finish up the book by the end of the summer. I have several agents waiting to read the rewrite, and that makes the anticipation all that much sweeter.

I wrote previously about the importance of doing things differently, of exercising a different part of my writing brain at times when the novel just isn't working. Last fall, during a couple weeks when I'd set the novel aside, I did just that, writing three essays (two writing-related and one parenting). I'm so excited to report that two of those essays have been accepted at magazines. "Choice Words" will be published in a future online issue of Hip Mama, and "Giving Up" is slated for the September print issue of The Writer Magazine, a national magazine with a circulation of more than 30,000 subscribers. Funny, that essay is about giving up on the novel. I wrote it in a moment of despair. Now, I'm getting it published and the novel has a second, and wonderful, life.