Done. Ninety-four thousand and change - quite a lot of ch...
Done. Ninety-four thousand and change - quite a lot of change, actually - but I'm EXTREMELY pleased with it. I get fifteen minutes of agonized desolation and then have to start on the next Asher and Ysidro book.
My niece was in town - attending a conference - which gave me the chance to actually make food instead of just eating raw whatever I find in the refridgerator and going back to work. I HIGHLY recommend my friend Laurie's Party Know-It-Alls blog (http://www.partyknowitalls.com) for my nephew Ryan's phenomenal quinoa-cucumber-pomegranate salad.
The worst thing about switching from finishing a book to starting a new one (other than the agonized desolation, which always follows completion of a book) is that from reading a very polished final draft, I go back to stumbling through my own clumsy, repetetive, adjective-enlarded first draft thinking, "Oh my God, this is HOGWASH!"
But I must say, it'll be good to be back dealing with Ysidro's snottiness and vampire politics... and good to start planning the next January book, which I'm already looking forward to. (I have three vampire books, two January books under contract, alternating) (And whatever short fiction I can do for the website...) (And getting my ass TOTALLY kicked in on-line Scrabble)
My niece was in town - attending a conference - which gave me the chance to actually make food instead of just eating raw whatever I find in the refridgerator and going back to work. I HIGHLY recommend my friend Laurie's Party Know-It-Alls blog (http://www.partyknowitalls.com) for my nephew Ryan's phenomenal quinoa-cucumber-pomegranate salad.
The worst thing about switching from finishing a book to starting a new one (other than the agonized desolation, which always follows completion of a book) is that from reading a very polished final draft, I go back to stumbling through my own clumsy, repetetive, adjective-enlarded first draft thinking, "Oh my God, this is HOGWASH!"
But I must say, it'll be good to be back dealing with Ysidro's snottiness and vampire politics... and good to start planning the next January book, which I'm already looking forward to. (I have three vampire books, two January books under contract, alternating) (And whatever short fiction I can do for the website...) (And getting my ass TOTALLY kicked in on-line Scrabble)
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