Oooh!

I've just remembered that I've written a few short stories that need to be edited too, so I'll make a start on those when I get back here too so that I don't get too far out of the creative writing mind-set!

I can sooo do this!

I'm being spoilt with...

...my own writing!  I've just finished editing my third book in 3 days and really enjoyed this one too.  If I'm feeling so positive about books I wrote in 2015-2017 then the more modern ones will hopefully be even better!

I'm gonna give myself the rest of today and all of tomorrow off from editing then get cracking on my Toni trilogy on Monday.

This is gonna be my year!

Wow...

...I'm 89 pages into a 337 page manuscript and I'm already having to swallow tears.  These are considerably better manuscripts than I'd ever given myself credit for.  In my book reviews, I can always tell a good book by how much emotion it stirs up inside me... I can already tell that I'll be in tears soon with this book, so it's the third book in as many days that I'm proud of which is an awesome feeling and is doing wonders for my confidence.

Another manuscript that...

...needed very little editing and I honestly enjoyed reading, so that's two manuscripts in two days that I'm already feeling proud of.

Tomorrow is gonna be the 4th edit of "Don't Bother!" by the looks of things, then I'm giving myself the day off on Sunday and then I'll get cracking on my Toni trilogy next week so that I can do one a day without forgetting what I've already written about.

Decision made about yesterday's editing

I decided for definite this morning that it's a MG MS so I've changed the age from 16 to 14 and edited the bit about making Dad a grandad so early and I'm a lot happier with it now.

Gonna edit "That's Magic!" today.

Even if I do say so myself...

...this is a blimmin' good manuscript that has needed very little editing done to it!  I'm hoping I'll have finished editing it by bedtime tonight and it was one of my earlier manuscripts too (first written in 2016) which makes it even better!

The MC has just had her 16th birthday though, but I've written it for MG so I'm wondering if I should take the age down or make it a short fantasy for YA 'cos it's 50k words?  It's fantasy though, so talk of future pregnancies and making a grandparent doesn't have to be with the realistic legal age of consent, right?

Book Review: "Dear Daddy" by Serena Haeuser

Kindle:
Paperback:
⭐⭐⭐ out of 5

If you've read any of my other book reviews recently, you'll know that I've always started them off by saying that every book starts off with the full five stars and that I'm always hopeful that I'll finish reading the last page with them all still stuck firmly in place.

Let's get started, shall we?

First off, I love the cover design - it shows a happy dad and daughter spending time together, which is already making my heart swell, even before I've opened it and started reading!

The illustration on the first page is absolutely gorgeous and it look like this is gonna be a letter as opposed to a story and it's a letter to the father figure from the child which I don't think a young child would understand or enjoy, but we shall see.  The fifth star is looking wobbly.

Oh dear.  The second page uses a word that a child reader/listener wouldn't understand at all ("appreciated") so the first star is unfortunately plopping off and onto the floor after only two pages  :-(

Thankfully I haven't found anything to whine about in the next three pages, so do I have a four star book in my hands??

Oh dear.  This was obviously written for the American audience 'cos the author has spelt it "mommy" which would confuse a British child and not every child prays so the fourth star is coming off too.

I love all the photos of the Dad and child spending time together... that's a great touch to finish the book on.