I’m delighted to announce that my fiancée and I have tied the knot! We’re hitched! After deliberating back and forth on the scale for our nuptials, we agreed to keep it small as humanly possible. (Health being the primary concern.) I’ve no idea what to expect from married life, but if it’s anything like what we’ve been thru already– minus the stress of wedding planning– then we’ve got this.
In completely unrelated news, I’ve started work on a Cozy Mystery, my first. I’ve always loved the genre– lord knows I’ve absorbed enough of it– but this is my first foray into the creation of one. It started as a short story idea, some 6,000 words, and may stay that size. It may not. Time will tell.
One thing I’ve finally managed to learn is not worry about the first draft. In the past, I might have dithered back and forth on making sure every word is perfect in this draft, and it’s an obstacle I just don’t have time to indulge. I finished the first draft of a tween mystery manuscript just as October began, and work on it has consumed most of my non-wedding thoughts for the whole summer.
What got me over some stumbling blocks was the fact that it didn’t need to be perfect, it just needed to be. It’s a first draft.
This side it still just getting started, but I’m excited to see where it goes, how it grows. More to follow.