Wednesday, July 25, 2012

At Least My Garden Is Coming Along Nicely

Back in March, I showed you a picture of my garden in all its post-winter messiness glory and discussed how gardening is much like writing a book. Here’s what the garden looks like now.


Considering the heat and lack of rain, I’m relatively pleased with the garden, although there should be a good deal more yellow in the photograph. Unfortunately, we live next to a *&^$#@ woodchuck who insists on eating every marigold the instant it flowers.

I only wish my story could undergo such a dramatic metamorphosis in just four months.

I’m happy to say I just finished a rewrite of my third chapter and sent it out to my CP. I’m unhappy to say I spent three full weeks doing the rewrite. Arggg! Where did the time go? I suppose three weeks wouldn't have been so bad if the chapter had turned out nice and polished, but it didn’t. The only reason I stopped at three weeks was because I was so sick of staring at that chapter, I knew there would be no further improvements until I had spent a month or two away from it. So I just sent it off to my CP as is and let her deal with it. (Sorry, Sheryl)

Anyway, I’m moved on to the next chapter. But before I open the file, I plan on staring at the picture of my garden for a while and thinking happy thoughts.

3 comments:

  1. Wow, I'm completely in awe of your gardening skills! That's beautiful, Ken.

    You know, your writing skills probably have improved that much, it's just harder for you to tell because you're in the midst of it.

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  2. Holy wow!!! Can you come do my yard? That's amazing!

    Good luck with the wip! And yes, looking at that beautiful garden should be wonderful inspiration.

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  3. That is gorgeous! And I bet your CP will forgive you :) That's what awesome CPs are for!

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