Continuing from where we left off: Chapter Two, in which Meghan gets a bit too happy with semi-colons.

For those just joining us, both Chapter One and Chapter Two are contained in the file. If Chapter One is still burning like a tire-fire in your mind, Chapter Two begins on page 22, so feel free to skip ahead.

The file will come down Sunday or Monday, so read it now or miss out until Chapter Three is deeply proofread and polished.

Limited Time Up! Email me or wait for Chapter Three if you’d like a read.

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Once upon a time I read an article that said writers should make sure to now and then put up exclusive content/previews on their website to reward their loyal readers. I have, I think, currently three loyal readers, so consider yourself rewarded with the first chapter of my middle grade novel How To See The Faeries. Here is a little blurby thing I wrote just now so you can see if you’d be interested in reading the first chapter:

Enid, age eleven, lives in a small New Brunswick town with her mother. Her life’s pretty standard: quarrels with her mother, run ins with her nemesis Amber Holden, teachers who don’t understand her brilliance, etc.

Oh, and the faeries. Those too.

Yeah, so it isn’t that great a blurb because I am sick of thinking about faeries.

Limited time only! Will be taken down in a week or so (realistically when I remember to do it).

Blah blah blah copyright info, not for sharing around without explicit written meghan permission, etc. Personal use only.

all of them prepositions.

Stupid faerie story.

1. proofreading my faerie story. It makes me feel like quitting writing forever. Like what’s the point? Do I really enjoy slogging away and then getting rejected. Although the faerie story has never been rejected as it hasn’t been sent out anywhere because after a week of proofreading, I am only on page ten because there is so much to fix;
2. that we are on the third snow day in two weeks. While single parenting, I need Tesfa to go to school so I can get stuff done. Like proofreading my faerie story that I am starting to loathe;
3. that I am getting a sore throat that seems suspiciously like it might be the starting stages of strep throat. This after being perpetually sick since November;
4. proofreading my faerie story. Yep, still hate it;
5. Vladimir Putin. Nothing in particular that he’s done like in the last twenty-four hours or anything. Just in general, he seems like someone I shouldn’t like that much;
6. how I haven’t written anything new I’ve liked since the autumn. It probably means that I’ve grown out of short stories and should work on longer things but I like that short stories can be finished in a shorter amount of time;
7. getting a ARC that is a PDF. I wish I knew that it would be a PDF before I requested it because then I wouldn’t. EPUB all the way;
8. this feeling of hating everything. Like I should try to be positive and uplifting and all I want to do is crawl into bed and be left alone.

For balance, I’ll try to post a list of things I like tomorrow.