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And thanks for all the well wishes after the accident. Apart from a few headaches and residual stiffness in my neck and shoulders, I’m just fine.

I have a deadline looming (and another and then another) lololol so I’m going to be writing lots. Which makes me happy because it means I’m employed :rockthefuckon:

I’ll be finishing one project up in a few days, and I just love this story. Love the hero. It’s really his story. He took over from the start. He’s done most of the talking, and he’s a hoot to listen to. I’ll be sad to let him go. But then I get to dive back into Into the Mist and revisit Tyana and Eli along with Maddox, Damiano, Jonah, Ian and Braden :lol2: It’s no hardship, I tell ya….

And THEN, then I get to wrap myself up in a story I love. A story I can’t wait to write. It’s one of the stories I just sold to Berkley. I love this story already. I’ve loved it ever since it first started whispering in my ear, and yes, it’s that story I was talking about awhile back when I said I started working on something I had no business working on because I had so much other stuff to work on. Well, it pays to listen when the characters start loving on you, because my Berkley editor pounced on that story. And SO, I get to work on it right away instead of pushing it back for several months :whoo:

I was supposed to get home Thursday night. That didn’t happen. On the way to the airport Thursday morning, some asshole rearended me and Karin, totaled her car and then fled the scene. He knocked us into the car in front of us. SHE fled the scene. My introduction to California drivers? Not going so well. NO one even stopped to see if we were all right. Fuckers.

So we spend the afternoon in the ER. I have to call my husband to tell him Im going to miss my flight (obviously) and he spends all afternoon trying to get me onto another one. (Gotta love him) So Karin’s husband takes me back to the airport to catch an 11:35 flight out of San Francisco only I had to fly all the way to Atlanta before I could hook back to Houston. Got into Atlanta at 7 something in the morning, then had a five and a half layover because all the flights to Houston were booked. I’m tired, sore as hell, stiff and cranky.

Finally get into Houston at 1pm and then have an hour and a half drive home.

The good thing is both Karin and I were wearing our seatbelts, otherwise we would have ended up on the hood of her car. Jerkwad never even braked before impact. No skid marks, no squeal of tires, no nothing. Just wham.

Even better, however, is that an off duty cop witnessed the accident, chased down the asshole after he drove around us and careened across four lanes of traffic to hit the next exit. :nunchuk:

Much cursing abounds. It’s not pretty.
:cursesign:

Hubby is grilling steaks and I’m packing for Cali. Leave first thing tomorrow morning :whoo:

Tonight is game night. LSU plays Florida. In Louisiana, we loathe all Florida teams :sumo: I mean why else would I have rooted for AUBURN last week :huh: I mean Auburn? They’re only one step above Florida teams.

So we’re hanging out, cooking yummy food and we’ll be tuning in for the kickoff :banana:

Tomorrow? Hopefully some gorgeous California weather. :weee:

I was supposed to start back on writing the stuff I had to stop writing on in September when I had some stuff crop up that I needed to get done ASAP (How’s that for a confusing sentence) Anyway, Monday was THE day I was supposed to get back to the schedule.

Uhm, it didn’t happen that way. :sack:

Not that I’m surprised. I would have been MORE shocked had I actually started writing when I was supposed to. Everytime I come off a big project or something stressful, or just a big writing binge (September was one big ole writing binge from the word go) I usually suffer let down and don’t do much of anything for quite awhile.

Tuesday was more of the same. I mean I did get SOME work done, just not the writing on the actualy project I’m supposed to be working on. It all evens out in the end, but it can be frustrating.

At any rate, I finally got it in gear yesterday and got quite a bit written. Today I knuckled down and got a lot more done, and the day is only half over. I have to go get the rugrats in about half an hour, but I’ll have more writing time after they go to bed tonight. If I manage to log in another productive day tomorrow, then I’ll be back on schedule and Monday and Tuesday’s slackerdom will be all erased :woot:

Side note: Only two more days until I fly to Cali :whoo:

and get the last of the proposals finnito. This one was sorta unplanned. That is uhm, I wasn’t supposed to be working on this. Because it’s not like I dont have lots and lots of writing to do. But this one has been murmuring in my ear for a long time and it was going to drive me crazy if I didn’t write it down. The problem is, I love it so much that I want to write it NOW. But I can’t. It must wait its turn. Behind five other books I have to write :crying:

So it’s back to Into the Mist, and I also have a novella to finish this month. Should be able to get both done because I have a big chunk of Into the Mist written already. I love that book, so after my initial laziness, it won’t be hard to get back into it.

After that…hmmm….November is an interesting month. I sat down over the weekend and wrote out my schedule of what all I needed to write for the next year and made timelines, inserted deadlines and release dates etc. Remind me not to ever do that again. Talk about send me into meltdown! The thing is, it’s not insurmountable. I take it book by book and I have plenty of time. But when I look at it all on paper and have that many books staring me in the face, the panic starts. Because I think OMG, what sane person can do this?

At any rate, it’s back to Into the Mist I go, but I’ll still be sneaking bits and pieces of the yummy proposal I just finished. (Love that book)

LSU is number one and all I can say is about damn time.

:rockthefuckon:

USC who? What division do they play in again? Oh yeah, not the SEC.

pussies

Well the UFC was awesome until the last fight. Bleh. I hate to say it, Chuck, but man, you might have seen your last day in the sun. :oops:

I’ve been fighting some kind of serious funk and it’s about to kick my ass. Monday was dentist day. The dentist, knowing how tense I was about the impending root canal, gives me xanax and tells me to take it an hour before my appt and have my husband drive me. Whoa. I remember taking the kids to school. I remember coming home and taking the medicine. I vaguely remember my husband driving me somewhere….the rest of the day? Can’t remember a thing.

Since then I’ve felt like crap. I go to bed early (rare) I get up and slog around, take the kids to school then crawl back into bed. Yesterday, I took a two hour nap then tried to sit up to do some work and I seriously couldn’t even hold my head up. I felt like I’d just pulled a three nighter or something.

Still tired today and now I’m wonderin if my annual bout of mono is here, just a bit early. (I usually come down with it in November, however, last year, it visited me in October)

I have work to do. I have a proposal that’s due like Monday. I have two projects due at by the end of November. The only good news in all of this is that I am DONE with edits for quite some time. My Berkley copy edits are done, I just finished line edits for Long Road Home and my December release has already been edited. So I have several months before I have to dive back into that pond. :banana:

So writing. That’s all I have to do. Well for now. I’ve conveniently pushed aside all the promo crap that I have coming up. I just need to get this :cursesign: proposal done because it’s killing me. :sack: :writersblock:

It’s no secret, I lurve UFC. :banana: Amy rolls her eyes at me, I roll them back blah blah. She clearly has no taste. What’s not to love? Hubby and I are camped out in front of the TV, one of the few times you’ll find me there. I had to call and bitch out the cable people because I kept trying to order the pay per view event and it wouldn’t work. Clearly, you don’t want to get between me and my fight.

Hunting was fun. Hotter than hell, but good times were had. Lots of good ole boys, guns and trucks. :rockthefuckon:

I actually took the weekend off, as in didn’t write a single word. I didn’t answer emails. Didn’t open a single word document. Not sure I’ll hold out through tomorrow, but yesterday and today, I didn’t do a damn thing, and you know, it was nice!

I have ideas brewing, one in particular that keeps whispering in my ear. I take notes when I can (okay so I also snuck in a chapter), but I have too many other things I have to do first before I can give it any real attention. I have a few proposals that I need to finish and then I get to dive back into the two paranormal stories I’m working on. One is a novella and the other is the first book in a paranormal action/adventure series that launches Feb 2008. J showed me the trailer that he worked up for Into the Mist (Book one of the Falcon series) and I lurve it. It’s really good. J and Amy are both soooo good to me. They spoil me outrageously.

At any rate, the two paranormals will be finished soon as will the proposal for book 2 of the Falcon series. My problem is, I have too many ideas and not enough hours in the day to write them all :purplelaugh:

I was over at Larissa’s and saw the wrap up for the Sven challenge thing and blinked. Oh yeah, that thing. I remember signing up. I didn’t flake on the requirements, I simply got busy with writing to the exclusion of all else. I’m afraid I’m not much of a social person heh. When I’m working, I usually don’t care what’s going on around me and don’t pay much attention.

I’m not even sure how much I got done. Just in the last two weeks I wrote over 50k. At any rate, I wrote an entire book that wasn’t part of my original challenge goals. Wrote 25k on a book due later this fall. Hmm wrote several proposals. Also did edits and line edits for two Samhain books and copy edits for my Berkley book. So while I stopped keeping track of my “progress” very early in the game so to speak, I’m confident I far surpassed the 70k challenge goal :rockthefuckon:

Tomorrow, I’m taking a break and totally doing something fun. We’re going dove hunting. :shoot: So basically, we’ll have more fun than human beings should be allowed.