So I woke up at 7:30 this morning, which is huge, since I went to bed at 1:30 and normally get up around 10.  After watching the last 30 minutes of Buffy, on TBS, I turned on the laptop and opened WriteWay Professional (I love that software).  I didn’t expect it to take all day, and I did spend a couple of hours Internet surfing (I haven’t even opened my email yet), but I managed to rewrite/edit my Stiletto entry.

Yay!!!!

I’m not sure if it’s ready to go.  I wont have the money for another week anyway.  But I’m stoked it’s done.  Of course the first two chapters ended up being 39 pages and only 35 are allowed.  The first chapter is one line on page 23 and the second is only 18.  I wish I could take the last scene of chapter one and drag it to chapter two but that doesn’t work–actually, to make it even, I only need to move 2 pages, which is ridiculous, so I guess it’s fine as is.

I did have to delete the last scene in chapter two for the contest though.  I hope it won’t matter.  It’s cute…my heroine with the women in the house and their first competition, but it’s not very eventful, and it was better deleting that then a setup scene which is necessary to understand why she is in the house and her motivation.  I may need to move the chapter title back some so they don’t look lopsided.  Not sure if that matters–if it would be noticed and possibly held against me.  Better to be safe though, right?

I’m working on the final scene (a two-pager) for the second chapter that won’t be a part of the entry, and then come Monday I’ll be able to begin chapter 3.  Tomorrow I need to start the synopsis, and let me tell you I am not looking forward to it.  I always gets stuck on how to start and all of it.  Not my friend.  But I’ll worry about that tomorrow.

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