# OF WORDS WRITTEN THIS WEEK:  1,612

Japan­ese fight­ing fish AKA Beta

Line-editing of GLOW is com­plete!  Now I need to find beta read­ers (thank you absolutewrite.com!) and get more feed­back on the 6^th draft.  I feel good about this one, and I hope my read­ers do too.

(Hope­fully, they won’t be half as surly as the “beta” in the picture…)

Last week­end, I focused a lot of energy on a new book— THE GHOST WRITER.  It’s about a woman who works at a regional the­atre and, after spend­ing a night there, finds sev­eral let­ters in her own hand­writ­ing but writ­ten in French (which she doesn’t speak).  I’ve out­lined the first ten chap­ters and have a decent idea of where the story is headed.  Plus, I wrote the entire first chap­ter.  It will, nat­u­rally, need edit­ing, but I’m very pleased with how it’s com­ing along.

Stay tuned!

Next week’s goals: Revise GLOW syn­op­sis and query let­ter.  Fin­ish out­lin­ing THE GHOST WRITER and SHADOW (the sequel to GLOW).