It occured to me this weekend - this very long, hot, overworked weekend - that I learned a lesson in the flood that I can use in the book. Even though I could feel my shoulder being injured, I kept shoveling water and mud and rock because it had to be done. The thought that I should stop never entered my mind because It Had To Be Done So I Could Not Stop. Somehow, with the re-write, I've got to work that into both Parker and Kelsey's stories.
At least I'm out of the sling and able to type with relatively pain. Thursday I'm getting needled by my acupuncturist and that will hopefully speed the healing. Money is going out of my checking account at an appalling rate, mostly for vacation spending a month ago. *sigh* I've been really wanting to buy stuff but putting it off (like an external hard drive for back ups). Maybe I'll be able to bring myself to pull the trigger now.
The whiny story of slogging through writing my first novel.
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BACK UP! Always, repeatedly, with redundancies built in!
Glad something good can come of the horrors of the last week. I always tell my students that you know you're a writer when something awful is happening to you and you think "I can use this..."
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