Of Lions and Violins

It's been a crazy couple of days.

I'm cat-sitting for Kat-with-no-LJ who is in my long-time writer's group. It's a gorgeous Craftsman style house on the North Shore of Long Island, surrounded by tress, grass and a nearby pond with swans and herons. It's a lovely little retreat in the country.

I might have actually enjoyed it if I weren't so busy.

On Thursday, I drove into the city for the Interstitial Arts salon. Got in there late (I'm sorry you missed it michele_lang !) so I skipped picking up food, only to be starving when I got there. It was a great space, but luckily, a bunch of the Altered Fluid peeps were hungry too and we went and grabbed some food. Came back out on the LI, but it was thundering and I got the creeps from being in the huge house alone so I didn't fall asleep until 4am.

Woke up the next day late, which meant that I got to the LIRW luncheon late. Still, I managed to pitch my novel to editors, and THEY SAID THEY WANT TO SEE IT. (I'm both elated and terrified at the same time). And they were the two editors I wanted to talk to at the RWA conference in July anyway!

So now I have to try and finish this stupid novel ASAP. No wait, not try, I AM GOING TO FINISH IT.

After the luncheon, went further east on the island to safewrite 's wedding. She looked lovely and so happy. I'm so glad she found someone. I'm just sad she's leaving the area! I also had a great time hanging out with saycestsay .

After the wedding saycestsay  and I went into Huntington, grabbed some falafel and sat outside on a bench listening to a local band play. It was a lovely night.

And now, before I even begin looking at my novel, (All my novels, when I work on them, are given the title "stupid novel") I have a book to read and a review to write for PW.

And yay, K comes back from CA tonight!

Now I sit, in a room filled with windows, listening to the rain, with cat to keep me company.

I couldn't ask for a better writing retreat.

Edited because half my post got replaced by a random lj username.