I’m in my comfy chair TRYING to put this story to bed. I’m SO close. What does hubby do? Comes in, turns the TV on LOUD and worse? He’s listening to fucking politics. :huh:
How rude :stfu:
I fled to my office because shit. The TV was bad enough, but I’m trying to write which is difficult when my blood pressure starts rising due to rampant stupidity flooding from the lips of dumbasses.
I think I’d rather watch the damn Teletubbies or something equally as horrifying…
I’ve written an obscene number of pages today. I’ve decided a more appropriate title for Stay With Me is the fucking book that will not end. Catchy eh?
It’s after midnight. I’ve been up at least until 2 every night this week. I don’t function well without sleep.
I don’t even know how many pages I’ve written today because I’ve just kept writing and writing. Close one chapter, begin another, thinking the whole time, “shouldn’t I have finished this story by now?”
I still have a galley to finish, two blurbs to write, final copies of three novellas to run down and I just got line edits back on another book, and all this stuff is due like yesterday.
:sack:
the schedule that is. I’m having to reshuffle and rearrange my order of projects and I’ve had to clear February completely which means shoving everything back a month. Not to say I won’t be working in Feb, because honestly, it’s going to be a busy damn month, but I won’t be working on contracted stories, well unless I get everything else cleared from my calendar first. :beam:
It won’t be too bad until July. July will be a crunch month for me because of February. Makes complete sense doesn’t it? :lol2:
You know, I never thought I’d be glad for a Monday, but I’m actually glad the weekend is over. It wasn’t all bad. My daughter’s birthday was Saturday and celebrated. We’re having a party for her next weekend at my dad’s and most of the family will be there, so it should be a lot of fun.
The rest of the weekend, though, was just funky. As in me, in a funk. I hate that, especially when I don’t have a clear cut reason for the funkdom. My usual process is realizing I’m on my way to ickiness and then I immediately get all analytical and try to figure out why I’m off my game. Nope, couldn’t think of a reason. I guess we’re entitled to a funk every now and then lol.
In the end, I think it’s just a matter of fatigue. Writing, no matter how much we authors love it, is still a creative process, and it can be draining. Factor in all the career stuff that has nothing to do with actually crafting a book and it can get downright exhausting.
So anyway, I took the weekend off writing which is just as well because I was in no mood to create anything but a new soft spot in my pillow.
I love it when hubby reads my mind (it happens with scary frequency) I was just sitting here thinking about hungry I am and he called two seconds later to ask if I wanted to do lunch :hug:
So I have an hour left to bust ass writing so I can take a couple of hours off to go enjoy lunch. I’m about two thirds of the way finished with Stay With Me :whoo:
Got a release date for Reckless today. Reckless is a short story included in Samhain’s Red Hot Summer anthology. J.T. Summers from Brazen is the hero and his heroine is set to drive him bonkers :rockthefuckon:
Anyhoo, June 3 is the date.
I mailed off Be With Me ahead of deadline today :whoo: That’s one more thing crossed off my to do list.
I have several ideas percolating in my poor overtaxed brain. All while I’m trying to write about poor Catherine, Rhys and Logan. I’m making them suffer because they’re making ME suffer. :sumo:
Speaking of suffering…my husband as the GOP debate on. Now tell me what did I do to deserve this? Haven’t I suffered enough? I guess I’m not a good republican because I’d rather go back to the dentist than listen to this.
Sometimes a Cadbury egg just makes everything right.
Yes, I realize that it’s not even Valentines, and I have no idea why my Walmart is stocking cadbury eggs and Reeses peanut butter eggs, but hey, I’m not complaining. Easter candy rocks the socks off valentines candy anyway.
This week is really slugging by for me. I feel like a sloth. I’ve been getting all the little shit done which is good since I’ve done little else, namely the BIG things like finishing my novella….
I’m getting spoiled. I just got back from a week long vacation to Vegas with hubby but I’m already ready for another one. Somewhere. Anywhere. A girlfriend of mine and me are planning a trip the last week of Feb, so hopefully I won’t have too long to wait :whoo:
But hey, it WAS my sole resolution at New Years, to spend more time with people I love this year. :hug:
So I put up a contest post today to celebrate my birthday and first I got emails from readers because they can’t post to comments and now the entire site is down :cursesign:
Isn’t that typical? And I’m on my way out to the dentist (boy do I know how to celebrate)
At any rate, I’d offered a contest to win an a PDF ARC of Sweet Surrender over there. So if you find yourself over here because WM is uncooperative, feel free to enter here and I’ll count it as an entry even if WM later comes up. Super J will be on the job as soon as he can I’m sure.
So to enter, all you had to do was guess my age, which isn’t a heavily guarded secret, and I’m pretty sure it’s been mentioned a few times in passing. Contest is open until tomorrow morning sometime, and I’ll announce the winner shortly after.
If you don’t like or can’t bring yourself to read an electronic copy, then not to worry. I’ll be offering a print copy soon :weee:
for the next two weeks! Proposal, novella and a 100k galley to proof. Oh and a book to write in Feb…
:sumo:
I did manage to finish Be With Me and send it off to my agent and I’ve been mulling over one of the proposals I need to write. I’d forgotten about a project that’s due on the 20th *sigh* so that has to be up first today. I also got Golden Eyes back from my editor last night because I asked for it to come back to me one more time before it goes off to line edits (more of my analness) so I have to go through it one more time by this weekend. And to think I was supposed to be working on Stay With Me this week…
In the line of suckage…I’m worried i have another kidney stone :crying: I’m putting head in sand and hoping I don’t have an agonizing pain attack that tells me quite plainly that I DO have one. Me and pain don’t get along.
