Raven's View

A couple of days late for the check in, but I wanted to get at least a quickie update in here, as I head out of town tomorrow for a week of fun. We had an election Monday, and picked a different party. Liberals, under Trudeau. Everyone was fed up with the Conservatives, and especially their dictatorial leader, Harper. General feeling was 'throw the bastard out'. So we did. 

• Editing - My new spot for writing editing didn't last, as I needed the monitor as a second gaming console and the table to read the newspaper. At any rate, editing done for now. Good enough. 
• Writing
• I did two FFF challenges, The Collector, and Scanned and Scammed.  That's eight so far in this series, one a week. Two have inspired by my choice for NaNoWriMo this year (see below), as often happens.
• NaNoWriMo - This will be a sci-fi story, set in a world where simple ID chips morphed into health records then tracking devices then mood/emotion controls. And more. I just need a story and characters to set there, so I can do an outline. It will come to me. I have Index Card on my iPad to work on this while I'm away - we'll see how all that goes. It will export into Scrivener when I'm done. I think. 
• Publishing/Marketing 
• I drafted up my pitch for the three publishers I am meeting at the end of the month. Will tune it up, with help from my girlfriend next week.
• Reading
• I voted in the Aurora Awards so did a lot of reading/skimming.  
• Book club - We did, and liked, The Future Falls, by Tanya Huff. 
• Social - Chats with my red-head, and with my son, of course. Did more  gaming with him.  
• Health - trying to get out more, and buy less snack food. Had a full physical this week - doing pretty good but less weight would be better.
• Other - lots of Netflix of course.