October 23, 2007
Oct 23
I’m screeching toward my deadline, typing and worrying in equal amounts. Why can’t I ever feel good about my books as I’m writing them? I used to. Now, I just sigh and keep writing. It’s depressing, though, cause it really feels like dreck. My friend tells me the book is totally fine and I should just slap me and tell me to shut up. I’ve tried her suggestion, but it only works for a little while.
I hope you’re all doing boffo with your work, and that you’re not as freaked out as I am that it’s OCTOBER freakin’ 23RD! How did this happen? It’s going to be 2008 in about 20 seconds, and I’m not ready.
In fact, I’m barely ready for 1998, so uh, I guess I have some catching up to do.
We aren’t living up the mountain any more so we bought some Halloween candy. It’s very loud candy, and keeps calling me from the other room. Bad candy.
Oh, looking forward to the Forensic fun in St. Louis - everything except the airport. If only they weren’t mostly focused on giving us the illusion of safety instead of actually doing the things that would make us safer, it would be so, so much better. As it is, I have to go through all kinds of nonsense with my medication. It’s depressing.
Boy, aren’t I just perky and optimistic today?
Here’s a cheerful note - no, wait. That’s not cheerful at all. Sorry.
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I can’t count the books I’ve read the past month on one hand, but I can count the Romance novels I’ve read over the course of my lifetime on two hands. (Yes, I’m working on that!)
What I do with series authors I get into is buy the books as they are released, but I wait to read the books until I own one more than I have read.
This is the reason I was not left high-and-dry between RELEASE and RECKONING. It was a good thing, too, as I finished RELEASE at about 2 am one morning during one of my bouts with insomnia. Had I not been able to dig right in on RECKONING, I might have gone mad. Gotten mad. Been mad. All three.
Here’s the thing: I bought KIDNAPPED some time ago, but I can’t read it until the next book comes out.
So I’m going to need you to ignore the candy and get back to writing.
Please.
P.S.
October 23rd, 2007 at 12:03 pmGiven my finger analogy, a bit of easy math shows of the eight or so Romance books I’ve ever read, four are yours, so feel good about what you are writing. This is only in part because my opinion holds SO much weight! I think you have to consider what it takes in terms of characters and storyline to pull in a non-genre reader—that’s good overall writing. (Amazon even says they only have three copies of KIDNAPPED left in stock—that’s got to count for something!)
Shawn! That’s so cool! You made me happy today, which I thought was impossible. And yes, I wrote my chapter. I didn’t eat the candy. I feel so virtuous. :)
Really - thank you!
October 23rd, 2007 at 4:53 pmNo, no, no - don’t feel too virtuous - it might leak into your writing! We want you to be feeling tempted and oh-so-naughty . . . go eat the candy!! Lol!
Hope you have a better day today!
October 24th, 2007 at 2:28 amah, Jo, nice to know I’m not alone. I miss those days when I thought everything I wrote was brilliant. *g* Halloween candy has chocolate in it. Good thing I put mine on the top shelf.
October 25th, 2007 at 8:18 am