Great New Group And New Ideas

Unlike the dreary day outside, my current writing life is looking sunny. No, I did not land the mega million ten book deal but I have found some new writer friends who are interested in forming a mutual help society (better known as a critique group). Mutual help society sounds so much happier, doesn't it? Barring their getting to know me better and blocking future emails, I think we may be on to a good thing. So far, I've read a bit of their work and one of them has read some of mine. He wasn't completely scared off so this may work. The fingers are crossing as I type which makes it very difficult to hit the right letters. So, if there are misspellings, you'll know that my fingers cramped and I had to go to emergency to get a muscle relaxer. Ah well, such is my life. As for revising, I've revised the hell out of my current WIP (work in progress). It bears almost no resemblance to the original writing but that's good because now I can go back and build on the parts that were good to begin with and not get swamped by all the drivel. I need to get to chapter 2 in the paring down mode but I think I want to spend a little time with chapter one before I move on. I've also been toying with a general fiction novel about an army Ranger based on a friend of mine. He is pretty high up in the army and used to be a Ranger. I have to get him to sit down and talk to me and I'm having trouble keeping him on task. He does love to talk, though. His stories are amazing. I think he is a born soldier. He loves it. He doesn't do so much of it now as he used to but when he gets the chance, he's out there in the thick of it. Personally, I think he's crazy. But then, I'm not a soldier. It takes a special person to do what he so obviously loves to do. More on him later if I can get him to sit still for five minutes and talk to me. In the meantime, there is this manuscript waiting for me to revise it and you all know how I just LOVE revising. NOT!