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Do you rise to the challenge?

I hope everyone is enjoying the summer! I am not a summer person, in fact I hate the heat. My DH and I were just talking about moving to Colorado or something. Though, my best friend lives in Boston and complains as much about the cold there as I do about the heat here. I find I want nothing but sweet tea and ice-cream during the summer, which sucks considering it's too hot to run outside -- well, you know, if I did that sort of thing. Aside from the above rambles, I am knee deep in my revision of TR. I will say I expected the process to be quicker, but I learned something along the way. See, I have always avoided going a certain direction with this book. I knew that direction would be more work, and subconsciously told myself it would detract from my characters. But I realized that was my fear talking. This direction isn't easy. It's requiring me to really think through scenes, think through my character's reactions in those scenes. In short, it's HARD! But the goo