July is open...

I have no jobs set up for July into the second week of August. I do have some medical crap scheduled for the last 3 days of the month, but that's it. So my goal is to have a working first draft of The Murder of a Quiet Man by my birthday. That way I can start my non-stop rewriting process and maybe bring it out before the end of the year.

Maybe. 

I don't want to push this story into publication till I'm sure I'm done with it. Which may entail letting it sit for a couple months to give myself some distance from it.

My reason for that is mistakes I made in other books. Like Porno Manifesto. When I reworked it into a screenplay, I found I'd missed so many ways to make it better...and clearer. Hell, just changing one character from a while tag-along dude to a black lesbian gave it a lot more life.

And in The Beast in the Nothing Room, I didn't set the final couple up well enough to make complete sense. They just...got together because I wrote it that way. Not good.

So I was careful with A Place of Safety. I listened to it and let it build the way it wanted...and bitched about it the whole time...but I cannot think of anything I would change in it, now. Brendan's story is complete, in my mind.

Of course, How to Rape a Straight Guy is complete, too...even though I finally gave in and retitled it Curt. Which didn't do a damn thing to help it. But enough about that.

Starting tomorrow, my focus is on MQM, and all of the angst that will entail.