Edit-Fication

Well I have begun the editing and re-shaping of my holiday Bible club MS. I have been through the five days of teaching and I am in the process of adapting and editing the discussion questions. Once this is done, the main piece of work I have to do is condense my synopsis to one page, which will be a challenge. It was great to sit down and begin to plan and go through the layout and how I am going to submit this work to this particular publisher. I am determind that by mid Feb at the latest I will be ready to submit this again.

I loved writing this three years ago for the holiday club at our church and have been actively encouraged to try and get it published, so we will have a go.

The subject of Daniel is exciting for kids and relevant and I have had a buzz out of revisiting it again!

My YA novel is calling to me but I am determind to do one project at a time to finish it, otherwise I go off and nothing gets finished!

Happy New Year - Pox, Puppets and Promises

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a great Christmas and a fantastic start to the New Year. I am so sorry that I appeared to disappear off the face of Blogger planet for a few weeks, but two weeks before Christmas my children contracted chicken pox (at the same time) which caused stress leading up to the school nativity as my son was Joseph, however we made it (just) as his spots had dried up enough not to be contagious. Of course Christmas had gone on hold too, so the last week before Christmas is a blur for me! We had a great Christmas and are just beginning to manage the finer points of using a Wii controller now!

Never very good at New Year's Resolutions so I have set myself a number of goals that I want to achieve by the end of 2009. This makes it less likely that I will feel a failure if I do not achieve them all by January 31st!! Some of my goals have to remain in my little head, however I will share some of them with you!

1. Lose ** pounds in weight
2. Send my holiday bible club MS off to at least two other publishers
3. Write regularly i.e most days
4. Get organised (ha ha ha - fairyland I think that one)
5. Come to terms with the departure of David Tennant as The Doctor
6. Remember that the computer has an off switch!!
7. Complete the first draft of my YA novel
8. See if life without regular doses of Galaxy is possible

Just a few of my ramblings? Would love to hear if any of you guys have goals or resolutions, although you are all far too organised and sensible to need to do such things I am sure!!!!

The picture above is of my two and my niece with some of the puppets we used to do our puppet nativity shows before Christmas.