A Few Awesome Things

Hi! I'm back! No, I haven't been away ... just lacking in the blog area of writing. So here I am, with a few awesome things to share with you.

Awesome Thing #1:

I got three days in a row off work. Which means I can paint my nails! I'm so happy. We're not allowed nail polish at work, which is very depressing in my opinion, and two days off work is never enough for nail painting to be worth it. But I got three! Yay. Now my nails are bright blue :) Awesome.

Awesome Thing #2:

I shouted Justin, Amber and Jordan Slurpees and Amber won a free one, and she gave it to me because they were leaving for Adelaide that afternoon. So today I redeemed the ticket and got a free large Slurpee. Awesome.


Awesome Thing #3:

I just made a chocolate/banana milkshake. It's awesome.


Awesome Thing #4:

I've begun rewriting my novella, Fat Beagles Are Unattractive. For those of you who don't know, it's a fun, slightly humorous story about a family with six kids and one very chubby Beagle puppy. It's currently sitting at 16,000 words so I'm hoping to expand that by 9k with the large plot point I'm about to dump on it, and get it up to at least 25,000 words.

If you were to ask me what age the book is for, I'm really awful about knowing exactly what age I'm writing for, but from the characters I'd say about ages 10-14. The narrator is 14 years old, and from what I've heard in regards to kids' stories is that the readers are usually about the same age as the protagonist or younger.

The goal is to get the rewrite done by May or early June, in order to use the story as my free proof copy from Createspace, which I won for doing NaNoWriMo. After that, I'll tidy it up until closer to the end of the year, and then submit the book for publishing. How exciting! I can't wait to get my first rejection letter in the mail. I plan on framing it. It's gonna be awesome.

Anyways ... that about all I can manage to write at the moment. I have uni work and rewriting to do, which I really should be prioritizing, but hey.... Ta ta for now :)