Homeward Bound?

[davidgillon]

A productive phonecall (finally!) with the manager of the nurse-assessor from hell means I might make it home as early as Wednesday. She wants a first hand meeting with my sister to discuss the complaint, but I think the appalled silences when we discussed what had happened means our message has gotten across. My sister's availability for meetings given school means the assessment meeting I've been hanging around for has been pushed back to, probably, late May. If we can confirm that on Monday, then I'll try to book a ticket home on Tuesday, for travel on Wednesday or Thursday, then come back up at the end of May for a couple of weeks.

Reading achieved:

Alpha and Omega series, Patricia Briggs

On the Prowl (novella)
Cry Wolf
Hunting Ground (Amusingly I now have a much better understanding of the geography of the story from having written a novel and a half occuring over much the same ground since I read it last)
Fair Game (just started)

Mercy Thompson series, Patricia Briggs

Silver Borne
River Marked (probably my favourite of the series)
Frost Burned
Night Broken

(I'd have started with the four earlier Mercy Thompson books from preference, but they're old enough I have them in dead tree format, so  aren't to hand)

Writing-wise I've had a productive week, largely the potentially nightmarish re-write of Chapter 10, which was both changing PoV and having much of the dialogue shift from being Old PoV to sidekick to being new PoV to old PoV. I brought in a new batch of chapters, through to Chapter14, for rework on Friday, which takes the draft to c70Kwords. I'm not quite as happy with some of the writing here, so while I've incorporated the mark-ups, I think I need to take another line-editing pass.

In the (almost) four weeks I've been in Durham, we've gone from sleet and snow to sitting out in the garden all afternoon. I guess Spring is definitely here.