Feeling Adult

Well, it has been quite a weekend.

We put an offer on another house. A house which, coincidentally, is bigger and down the street from the first house we put a bid on. The sellers countered, we accepted, and later this afternoon we are going in to fill out the required paper work. We still have to get through the inspection and the appraisal, but unless something unexpected happens, it looks like we could be moving into our house (our house--something I've never said before) around Thanksgiving.

Buying a house is a big thing.

The other big thing is that I finished a draft of my novel yesterday. That draft has been long in coming. I'm glad to be finished, but mostly I'm just tired. I'm going over what I have this week, sort of trying to figure out a game plan, and I'll start rewriting around Nov. 1. I have to go to the Texas Book Festival on Thursday, and I'll be in Austin through Sunday, so I doubt I'll get any major work in before then.

Do you want to write a novel? You might try NaNoWriMo. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, will be to write a novel during the month of November. I'm not going to join up this year since I think it would be cheating, but I am going to try to get a revision of the novel in one month. I think I need to do at least 3-4 serious revisions and then a few more proofing look-sees, but what the hell do I know? I've never done this before. Right now, my hope is to revise in 3-6 months. Will I meet my deadline? Will I ever finish? Stay tuned ....