December 21, 2009. Winter solstice. It is also the deadline for me to finish the final revision of my novel The Pegboard of E'svarn. If I don't, all hell will break loose and evil forces will rise up and turn me into a pointy eared marsupial. Or perhaps I will just vaporize.

Currently deep into chapter 5 - to be completed this week and I'd better get on the stick and do at least a chapter per week or else. The adrenaline will flow!

The process of revision is beastly - requiring one to be ruthless and very demanding of one's own limited cache of talents. It was much easier to dream up all the magic - now I have to make it cohesive and brilliant. And that is not easy at all - especially for a daydreamer who has the attention span of a caffeinated ferret...