Weight: 145.5

Research marketing/promotion methods for copy editing
Waiting for the first part of the novel to start working on that.

There was a post yesterday in a copy editing email list to which I belong about a scholarship for the UC Berkeley Extension Professional Sequence in Editing. It's essentially a four-course program that leads to a certificate. The scholarship covers the costs (minus books) for all four courses. I have to write a 200-word (really short!) essay that incorporates the answers to three questions. That's it. They'll make their selection based on one, very short essay. I have until 1 December to try to come up with something...It would look good on my resume and website to say that I have this certificate...

Work on Holroyd Cookbook
The camera functions beautifully, so now we're ready to start making recipes to get photos.

I did some pricing research on Lulu.com last night...and the way I'd like to do this book would be prohibitively expensive. Ideally, I'd like a full color hardcover, but even full color spiral-bound paperback would be $27 for 100 pages, and this will likely be longer than 100 pages! So I need to rethink this project, and perhaps settle for black and white with the very best full-color photo on the cover. I tried to find other options besides Lulu, but I don't want some package, just a POD that will allow around 10-20 copies for a reasonable price. *sighs*

Walk for at least a half hour or go to the gym

Finish 1st draft of News From Ludicrous
Perhaps today...

George didn't want to get up today, so my routine is a little off. He stayed up late, playing with the camera. He's getting ready now to go in to work, and just take a half day off, so maybe I'll try to focus on writing after he leaves.

UPDATE: I did write...one phase of Ludicrous, 380 words, for a current total of 77,856. My manuscript at this point is 247 pages long, and still a ways to go!