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I’ve been meaning to set up my office for uhm quite a long while but stuff always gets in the way. I have “office space” in our computer room, but the kids have overrun it. I just want a nice quiet area that’s MINE and mine alone. So this past week I moved my beloved bookshelves into my bedroom. I uhm have this big ass bedroom. It’s such a waste of space. Whoever built it was big into the whole “master suite” deal. Me? I don’t spend a lot of time in the bedroom. Never figured out why they should be so huge. So anyway, I decided to make half of it my office. :elephant:

So bookshelves are in place and they look lurvely. I’m about to go pick up my desk and tomorrow that’s going in :banana: Then I get to transfer all my shit in there at which point I can quit complaining about the kids getting into my “stuff”

My very own space….sigh. I may never come out!

Don’t have author copies yet but my editor fedexed me one copy of For Her Pleasure until my author copies arrive. :cheer:

I just finished the proposal from hell. :drunk: It’s not that I hated it. In fact, it’s a story I love very much. But it was hard. And it’s still not perfect. I have tweaking to do, but it’s finished as in conceptualized. Even the synopsis is done. :worthy:

I feel so….relieved I guess is the word for it. Huge weight off.

okay, I haven’t completely slacked in the writing arena, but I have been doing some major binge reading. I updated the sidebar “reading” list, but uhm I go through books so fast, you can bet that all of them are “already read” titles. And uhm, there are at least 25 ebook titles that I was too lazy to throw up there. I bought those in the last two weeks, and uhm, I’ve already read all of them :crying: Most all were Harlequin Romance or Harlequin Presents.

After a long, LONG hiatus from historicals, I’ve been binging on them for the last week. I uhm went a little batshit on a new to me author’s backlist, ordered a dozen, am on the last one :crying: so I had to quickly order more from Amazon and am trying to hunt down some of her OOP titles.

I still haven’t opened that last one. I’m trying to savor it. I figure I’ll last half a day at most.

Forgive the sniffly, mushy blog, but I truly have the best girlfriends in the world. They range from California, Washington State all the way to NY state, Washington D.C and then there’s the one in BF Kansas :lol2:

And truly, all it takes is a phone call to turn a completely shitty day into a smile and a laugh. I wish they lived closer. I wish I saw them more often than I do. Telephones and emails rock though.

:hug:

Not that I’ve been routine about checking in… I actually had to go back and look to see when the challenge started. I’m not very good at keeping up with word count, page count, whatever. I’m more of a kill myself until it’s done, binge writer. For this post, I have NO idea what I’ve done so far, so I’m going to have to piece it together. I’ll uhm be back in a sec with totals.

ok back with numbers. Since July 6, that’s what, 23 days? I’m just under 200 pages of written material. This spans four proposals and one contracted novel. In addition, I’ve done edits for one book and line edits for two books. I’ve turned in two of the proposals and I still want to tweak the other two, but I’ll be turning those in this next week. At that point, I’m free too work on already contracted work.

I’m not an X amount of pages type girl. I’d like to be but there are several days in here where I didn’t get squat written. I usually more than make up for those days during the times I DO write, but still, I can’t help but think how much more I could get done if I managed to write every single day.

Only one change to the cover. The new version will be posted on the Samhain coming soon pages just as soon as Crissy gets to it, and it will be posted on my website in the next week. I wonder if anyone will even notice what’s different :lol2:

driving Amy insane… :rockthefuckon:

Yesterday, I wrote an entire proposal with unmitigated glee. It wasn’t one of the ones I was supposed to be working on much to Amy’s irritation, but it’s a story that’s been brewing for awhile and I went back and forth about whether I wanted to dive into it. I figured a proposal can’t hurt :dunno:

But now I have to get back to finishing the two I’m supposed to be working on and then I get to dive into a contracted novel that I’ve actually been doing a lot of thinking about lately. I’m hoping to be done with any and all proposals this week.

Another synopsis down. I’ll have some tweaking to do, but most of the framework is there. Now i just need to write the chapters which shouldn’t take long because for once I actually know in great detail what happens in those chapters. (Kind of takes the fun out of writing them, though)

It’s early in the day and I’ve already gotten several pages written, which is nice. I’m still flirting with the idea of whether I want to work ahead on a contracted project that isn’t due for several more months, or if I want to do something else entirely. The smart thing would be to work ahead because uhm, if things go the way I want them to, I’ll be facing several more deadlines in the coming months.