Yay! I finished the first draft of my middle-grade book Doomimals Book 1: Cock-a-doodle-DOOM. My readers in my writing group are almost done with it and tell me they're enjoying it.
I have a committee of family members reading it and eagerly anticipating each new chapter. So much so that my little girl would not be happy until I wrote the first chapter of the next book Cat-a-clysm, plotted based on "The Three Little Kittens" just as the first one was plotted based on "Chicken Little." They've been a lot of fun to write.
But now I have a problem: I have three drafts in various stages of completion, one that I thought was done that needs to be tweaked and two that just have a first draft. Two need to be read aloud with my husband [and one run through my editing software] while the third needs some revision based on feedback.
And my little girl has now listened to my first chapter of Cat-a-clysm and is addicted. She must have MORE. Not to mention a list of other things I need to do in the day. So now, I have to figure out how to fit everything at once. And the increased humor in book two means book one needs to get funnier.
I wonder if there's an app for finding more time in the day, maybe expanding my day to 30 hours instead of 24. I guess there are worse problems than having too many manuscripts, like staring at a blank page and wondering how to find those first words. I've been there, too. One of my early blogs covers that. I'd rather have this problem.
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