I Have Enough of (being) Undermined
I avoided my laptop most of today, behavior I don't normally exhibit unless I'm sleep-deprived or really, really drunk. (I'm always afraid I'll spill my Kahlua and cream on it.) I usually take a day off after finishing a book and, yup, yesterday I finished UNDEAD AND UNDERMINED. Which is why I'm treating myself to laptop avoidance today. Tomorrow I'll be back at it...there's a scene from YOURS, MINE AND OURS, the 2nd book in my FBI agent with MPD trilogy, that I'm dying to get out of my brain and into my laptop. Then my laptop can worry about it.
It's funny...if I'm hip-deep in a book I'm annoyed at my laptop. If I've finished a book and treat myself to a day off, it feels really, really weird not to be writing. Although I deeply pity Stephen King and Nora Roberts (they've both told reporters that they MUST write every single day, weekends, holidays, birthdays, every day, must...by the way, that's not talent, it's obsession), I can understand a little bit what it must be like to be compelled to write day after day after day. Today I was only compelled to wash Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls down with glass after glass of milk. And, you know, be a loving wife and mother and all that.
I'm sure Stephen and Nora will take my comments pretty hard. They're probably both crying into bags of money right now. Sorry, guys, but I called it the way I saw it.
All this to say UNDERMINED is finished and in my editor's hands. Will you guys like it? Will you hate it? Will you threaten extortion? Will you completely ignore the title and then ask questions which can be answsered by reading the title? Will you have any idea what I'm talking about? I guess we'll wait for July, and find out.
It's funny...if I'm hip-deep in a book I'm annoyed at my laptop. If I've finished a book and treat myself to a day off, it feels really, really weird not to be writing. Although I deeply pity Stephen King and Nora Roberts (they've both told reporters that they MUST write every single day, weekends, holidays, birthdays, every day, must...by the way, that's not talent, it's obsession), I can understand a little bit what it must be like to be compelled to write day after day after day. Today I was only compelled to wash Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls down with glass after glass of milk. And, you know, be a loving wife and mother and all that.
I'm sure Stephen and Nora will take my comments pretty hard. They're probably both crying into bags of money right now. Sorry, guys, but I called it the way I saw it.
All this to say UNDERMINED is finished and in my editor's hands. Will you guys like it? Will you hate it? Will you threaten extortion? Will you completely ignore the title and then ask questions which can be answsered by reading the title? Will you have any idea what I'm talking about? I guess we'll wait for July, and find out.
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I didn't even realize that there was another book coming after finishing the last one. I was so mad after the Epilogue because I thought that it was finished. I am very glad that its not over yet.
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