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I was up late last night. Very, very late. Part of the reason is, my husband is out of town and when he’s not here, I always stay up late, enjoy the quiet house and get some work done. I was writing along, get to the pivotal scene, the scene from which everything left in the book stems, and it doesn’t work. Does. Not. Work. :crying:

I wouldn’t mind it not working if I knew how to fix it. But I don’t. So no, once I finally did manage to get to bed, I didn’t get much sleep.

So today, I’ve got a raging headache and I’m about to fall over. I lead such an exciting life…

Really, REALLY quiet. After week with both the kids and the hubby home, things got a little crazy around here. Today is just the calm before the storm, though. This week promises to be a little nuts. Hubby’s leaving tomorrow on a business trip. I have kids to take to a bazillion baseball and softball practices (I really need to clone myself) and I have a book to finish.

Hubby and I were planning our summer vacation last night. We always hate it when one vacation comes to an end, so we usually start planning the next so we have something to look forward to. This year it would be nice to be able to schedule it when I dont have edits and a book releasing.

So my to do list for the week sounds something like this. Write. A lot. Finish mini ARCs. Clone self. Try not to lose mind.

The rain has stopped so hopefully the rest of spring break will be salvaged :banana: I’m gonna spend the next several days hopefully having lots of fun with the family.

See y’all next week!

:fishing:

Annmarie tagged me with this WIP thingy. Im stealing shamelessly from her blog (as in copying and pasting)

The instructions: Turn to page 123 in your work-in-progress. (If you haven’t gotten to page 123 yet, then turn to page 23. If you haven’t gotten there yet, then get busy and write page 23.) Count down four sentences and then instead of just the fifth sentence, give us the whole paragraph.

I tend to have uhm very short paragraphs, and as it happened, the part I turned to was mostly dialogue so I gave a few lines. A warning for any tender ears/eyes, the following excerpt contains adult words. If you’re easily offended….then what the hell are you doing at my blog anyway? :lol2:

Dark Desires (working title) coming May to Berkley (unedited and all that jazz, not only that, but subject to be completely removed from the final product based on my whim/current mood)

She watched from her periphery but he never looked her way. He backed out of the lot and headed down the long driveway, his gaze locked in front of him.

“Want to tell me what all that was about?” she asked when they turned onto the highway.

She heard something that sounded like a grunt. Unwilling to let the silence continue, she turned in her seat to face him.

“It was nothing,” he muttered.

Her face twisted with incredulity. “Nothing?” She stared at him in shock. “I can still feel the marks on my ass, feel your fingers in my pussy. I can still taste you in my mouth.”

He gaped at her, his eyes wide with surprise. “Don’t be crude, Faith. It doesn’t suit you.”
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I’m gonna tag Amy since I know for a fact, she’s finished with the first draft of her WIP so she shouldn’t have any problem looking up the required passage :pffftt:

Here is the cover for Undenied. Anne did a good job of capturing “Wes” for me :lol2:

They share everything with me. EVERYTHING. Including the stomach virus that they’ve taken turns coming down with for the last week. :puke:

And it’s raining today. First day of spring break. And it’s gonna rain tomorrow. And Wed… :crying:

I’m so going back to bed. :sack:

The kids are out for Spring Break all next week. Of course, we kicked off the break a little early because they were all home SICK Friday. :cursesign: Middle child was up the entire night before puking. Youngest was up all night coughing. NO ONE in the house slept worth a darn, so I snuggled up on the couch with the two younger kiddos all Friday morning and we snoozed.

Hopefully everyone will feel better by the time the weekend’s over with. Hubby is taking off and we’re gonna go do some fishing :fishing:

The weather has been beautiful here for the last week so I’m just hoping it holds for the break. Sunny, blue skies and temps in the 70s/80s. It’s been gorgeous! Today we’re grilling filets :chowtime:. Somtimes there’s just nothing better than a good barbeque and a tall glass of tea :guitar:

Happy Weekend everyone!

that a printer will work just fine as long you’re fucking around and printing non-important stuff. But the minute you need to actually print something that MATTERS, it wants to get all pissy. :cursesign:

Nah I don’t REALLY need to print something like 9 thousand pages for mini ARCs. :shoot:

Watched AI last night. Wasn’t that impressed. But then as a whole, this year’s offerings? Eh. Yeah, I know, that whole subjective thing (like we aren’t beat over the head much with THAT concept in the writing world) I still like Blake and Chris. They don’t have that whole bland personality thing going and they really do have talent.

I got the second version of my cover for Undenied yesterday. Anne and I had a really funny conversation about the first cover she sent me. The concept was there. She did a fantastic job of giving me what I wanted. The problem was the guy on the cover. He was…for the lack of a better term…fruity looking. He had this funky smirk. He was too pretty and too preppy. He was dressed up in some kind of evening suit. In other words he was completely wrong for the hero. :headscratch:

When I wrote back to Anne, I told her that my hero was a t-shirt wearing, football loving, beer drinking, good ole southern boy. Well, and there’s the fact that I’ve never written a preppy, pretty hero in my life. Not to say that there’s something wrong with them. I just don’t write them. :lol2:

So she sent me back a cover with a different guy, and the result was someone who looked and “felt” more like my hero. I lurve it when a plan comes together. I’ll show you when the powers that be get a chance to offer their thumbs up or down on it.

In WRITING related stuff, you know, job crap, I was behind in my page count last week. Pissed me off but there it was. I busted ass over the weekend, wrote my hiney off on Monday and yesterday. Last night I added up the pages and to my shock (and great joy) I’m now only 17 pages down from the collective total I need by the end of THIS week. :banana: AND I’m now only 27 pages from being at the halfway point in the book. :faint: I soooo need a rock the fuck on icon. Am going in search of one now hehe.

Oh looky what I found :rockthefuckon:

:lol2:

The weather was gorgeous. I could hear the wind chimes tinkling and the birds chirping as I was writing. Speaking of writing, I got 20 pages done yesterday. Would have probably gotten more done but I spent 3 hours on the phone with another writer pal. Sometimes those conversations are more valuable than pages done. Because those kind of conversations can only be held with another writer. They know where you’re coming from. No matter how much another friend or family member loves and supports you, they just don’t understand all the issues a writer deals with like another writer does.

AND I actually cooked supper last night. :fainting:

My poor husband is probably off at work wondering what the fuck happened to his wife. The kids are probably not complaining. They don’t know who the strange chick is who was wandering around their house last night but they’re probably rather keep HER.

I’m still trying to spend my amazon gift certificate I got like two months ago. I have a few books in my cart but I just can’t find anything that screams BUY ME. I already placed my eharlequin order this month, and I should get those books right before our fishing trip for spring break :cheer: I’m thinking it might take awhile to complete that Amazon order…