Story ramblings

I am tired, but pleased. I just completed edits to The Widow and the Dwende (Now just the Widow Zamora, since a large potion of the Dwende was cut out---though the Dwende are still there), and sent them off to the editor, two days early. *falls over* my eyes ache a little, and my arm is stiff. But I have an edited short story finished! And I do think it is cleaner---and stronger for the edits. (A lot of it, I owe to my B, who spent yesterday afternoon reading it and going over the draft with me, and the things I could do to improve the story. I <3 my B, my beautiful B.

And listening to this all helped too, an audio of Catherynne Valente's Bones Like Black Sugar, a retelling of Hansel and Gretel. The reader has a beautiful voice, she does justice to Catheyrnne's story, which is grisly and poignant and haunting.

And I am going to get back to the Disappearance. I've reedited and rewritten Chapters 1-7, with st_aurafina's help, cheerleading and poking ;). Grazi, my friend.