I think it's good to work on keeping the word count downish at this point, but I wouldn't obsess about it yet. Tell the story that needs to be told -- there are plenty of ways to trim later.

Also, I just got a box full of my last book with my former publisher. I wish I was excited about it.

At long last I got some feedback, yea! Feedback conclusion, fail. Sigh.

I think I'm going to end up multitasking my revisions. Latest feedback was also exact confirmation of my worries. I think I've come up with more plot cuts to help make room for a bit more detail and remove some traveling by eliminating a location. Some tough work ahead.

Someone tell me to quit reading the deals on Publisher's Marketplace. It only depresses me and makes me think I'll be gray and infirm before another contemporary women's fic will be bought that doesn't involve a murdered or terminally ill child.

Stop, Barb. It does hurt, I know.

I think we should do a Buffistas short story anthology and go Lulu on it, though. We certainly have enough talent.

God, that would be FUN. I would totally do that.

And we should really put together a link of all the Buffista authors and books somewhere, which someone asked about in Natter, I think, or maybe Lit, a few days ago.

Yeah. But who has time to be the volunteer editor? WE ARE ALL TOO BUSY AND NEED VACATIONS.

ASSCAPS for emphasis.

Oh, I would do it. I'm an excellent editor.

No Rainman jokes, please.

(But only if I could write a story, too.)

Hmmmmm.

I sense a plan brewing....

Me, too.

Hmmm.