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I don't dedicate hours a day to editing my first draft. I work on it on and off, in small, digestible chunks. And so far I am proud to say that I'm past the halfway point. Not by leaps and bounds, but significantly past the midway point.

Yay, me!

I just noticed I hadn't updated the blog in awhile and thought I'd add this quick update to show that I haven't quit. Nope, not by a long shot.

I even had an Internet friend ask about reading the story. She had previewed the first chapter (well, what kind of passed for a first chapter), and despite her busy schedule said she'd like to see more. So I packed up the bit that was once-overed by both myself and my wife, converted it to PDF (thank you OpenOffice...) and emailed it to her.

She's a busy woman and she said she couldn't guarantee that she'd get through it soon and that's fine. As far as I am concerned she's reading it for entertainment. Inwardly I'm thinking that if she starts reading it and enjoys it to the endpoint and asks for more of the story, then it is on the right track. That's what a story is supposed to do and that's what you to do get an agent or publisher interested; they pick up the story and you hook them right off the bat, leading them with a finger through the nose from plot point to plot point, and when nature calls they agonize over the decision of whether to wet themselves or finish just one more paragraph.

If she likes it and wants more, I'm on the right track.

If I bore her, then something's not working.

Maybe she'll ask for more, maybe not. Whatever happens I hope she enjoys it as a halfway decent time-killing story.

In the meantime I should be getting back to my editing...