In Need of Pampering

My hubby is off to the southern tip of Korea, Kyongju and Jeju-do, for a high school discovery trip. I'm totally jealous (Sure, I've been, but still!) because Kyongju is the setting for my Korean taekwondo story. I could handle some traveling all in the name of research.

But I'm trying to be positive here so this week I'm allowing myself unlimited coffee (Starbucks of course) and extra helpings of dark chocolate. I need a little pampering, right? Plus, I'm going to revise the second half of my book like a madwoman. So I'll be plenty busy.

My instructor, Jill, recommended that I write a different ending that would up the anti and stakes of the novel. So I did (yeah!) but it's a horrible mess of a first draft so that's what I'll be working on. (Wish me luck.)

How about you? What do you do to pamper yourself?

A Bad Haircut?

Right now I'm tearing my first draft into about a million shreds. I think it looks like someone with a really bad haircut. You know, chopped here, too long there, and maybe some mismatched dies scattered around that really need to be blended.

But.... I'm excited! I love what it's shaping into. The bad news is I have to write a totally different ending. A much better ending, of course.

I think I'm going to write it next week when my husband is off to China for his soccer tournament (Which by the way, we all should start hoping he wins. You know that sulking, bad mood and all stuff when he comes back without that trophy). I've been bouncing some really horrible stuff for my MC to go through--poor thing-- and a cool setting that I'm excited about.

So maybe this isn't really a bad haircut, but one in the making.

Anyone else need a haircut? I'll do yours for free.