Shannon Yarbrough

• Payday.
• Buy groceries.
• Pay bills.
• Ship paintings to Alabama.
• Work.
• Eat dinner.
• Watch Survivor.
• Go to bed and wake up to Friday.  YESSS!

The monotony of another work week.  I can’t believe I’m sitting here and my birthday has passed and it finally feels like springtime and it’s already Thursday.  The older I get, the faster time flies.  Oh, and you don’t have to agree with me on that.  And I don’t want to hear any “I told ya so’s” either, so none of that!

Now that all the painting is done for the art show in Alabama which is next week, I’m hanging up my brushes for a few months to concentrate solely on writing again.  Sure, I’ll pick up the paints again in the fall and do something for my Mom or Sister’s birthday, but I’m a lil burnt out right now.

Besides talking about rejection letters, I haven’t said much more about my writing lately so I wanted to post a few thoughts to update the people who read this blog, all 2 of you.  Upon returning from vacation, things were a bit slow because I think I was getting anxious to get some more responses from the agents who I have yet to hear back from.  Should I start a new project?  Should I continue to query?  Should I edit the old project?

The old projects are on hold.  For The Most Part is in need of some editing since I axed one of the characters a few months ago.  It’s pretty much been left at that.  Stealing Wishes has been queried to only one agent since the end of the ABNA contest.  I hope she at least replies with a yay or nay and doesn’t leave me hanging.  (fingers crossed)

In the meantime, I’m working on The Piano Maker project which I talk about under the Projects tab up there at the top of the screen.  I started at the beginning and have been going through it word for word and adding, taking away, and editing.  I’m almost at a point now where I’m about to start writing the rest of it and hope to have it done by the end of summer.  Again, I think it’s a great historical fiction piece and may be a bit more marketable than the last two books I’ve written.  We shall see….

I’ve also started on a nonfiction book proposal.  Read my previous post to learn more about that. The good news there is I don’t have to have it entirely written to start putting it out there to agents.

And that’s about it.  This weekend I’m looking forward to plant shopping, farmers market visiting, and working in the yard though!  The grass is green and waiting to be stepped on!