Today I am back home after meeting with my Language Partner. We shared lots of recipes and talked about the commercialization of love and affection. I told her that while lots of people will be giving and getting red and pink heart shaped crap, tomorrow all that stuff with be 50% off. In a few more days, it will be 75% off. Celebrate on the weekend. She shared that in Korea everyone who didn't get gifts gathers in April for an anti/left out dinner where they eat black noodles (noodles with black bean sauce).
I have spent the remainder of the time working on my novel. It ready for another print and I have two readers. I cannot bring myself to print it double spaced due to the cost, so they will have to write in the margins or highlight and red pen. I find I spend way to much time wondering if it is good even as I love the story and the characters. My accomplishment today is the pitch:
Zhara, K. Lynn and Willi meet at a women’s festival and find they are from the same locale. On separation, they agree to maintain contact toward friendship – no matter what. Liam, a local massage therapist and yoga teacher, shows up in their lives to complicate the ideas of love, relationship, and community. Each woman, in her turn, examines her hopes and dreams of love in the context of belonging and acceptance in the lesbian community.
I will left it rest for a while and submit before the deadline, February 29th. I have read the guidelines repeatedly. It is a crap shoot. They will randomly pick 25 pitches and post them to the social networking page. Readers will vote and the winner gets an agent/publisher. One fan will get an hour consultation. Whew!
I am excited to be teaching/sharing yoga weekly at the local LGBT Center. There has been regular attendance of six plus each week - three or four consistent participants. If everyone attends at once, that will be something.
Finally, I have been reading Charming Billy by Alice McDermott. It is the story of an Irish-American alcoholic shred from the prospective of his family in the aftermath of his death.As the title suggest, Billy is delightful and well loved even as his destructive behaviors dominate his relationships.
While at the library, I picked up Yoga Bitch by Suzanne Morrison. It looks funny and poignant. The character wanders the world looking to find her guru but meets others who are as human as she. (I haven't read it - this is my opinion and why I checked it out. We'll see if I am correct.)
