Category: Maya’s Older Posts

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.

where you just want to tune out the rest of the world and zone for awhile? :couch:

Yep, I’m there. I have a horrible headache and so even looking at a computer screen is out. Makes my head swim. So though I have a proposal I’m supposed to be writing, my mind keeps drifting away to new ideas, characters I can’t write yet but want to, dreaming up their situations….

Sigh…

I kinda like these days. Well, except the headache part. I’d really give about anything to get the icepick out of my forehead.

I love it when that happens. I’m feeling pretty good right now. Just sent off the more fun than a barrel o monkeys book off to my agent who squeed her delight in a return email. Next up is a proposal one of my editors is waiting for. That starts tomorrow. For today, I’m going to breathe, take some downtime and celebrate an accomplishment.

Grilling out for lunch today. Mmmm down here, if you can’t grill it, it ain’t part of the necessary food groups.

I also booked my flight to California this past week. I felt a little stressed booking it because I was thinking about all the stuff I have to do. And then I realized that I’m supposed to be FINISHED with all that stuff before my trip. So uhm it’ll be a reward, right? Downtime with one of my bestest girlfriends….ahh. Heading out there second week in October, and I can’t freaking wait.

so if you haven’t visited, hop over because we’re kinda going nuts today with the giveaways.

I’m on target to finish the first book in the great evil plan this Thursday. I don’t have a lot of time to enjoy that because I have to get it polished, edited and squeaky clean to send off ASAP. And then I have to immediately jump on a proposal that my editor is waiting for. (Evil plan part deux) Okay, make that two proposals *sigh* One for each editor.

Er uhm and then I have two books to finish. :violin:

I might see daylight. Next year….

I’m celebrating the release of For Her Pleasure over at Writeminded. :cheer: I’m giving away prizes all day, so head over for the fun!

I just remembered that today is the last day of the month, which means that the October books will go on sale after midnight at eharlequin. And I’ve got so much stuff to do that I can’t binge like a junkie and go buy them all and spend the weekend reading :crying: