Thoughts

JANUARY 26, 2010

I KNOW, I KNOW

Listen, I know it's been ages since I wrote anything here, but you will understand when I tell you that I have been really, really busy. Like really busy. Stupid busy.

I have two book projects on the go (official announcements coming soon) that must be finished as quickly as humanly possible because I have reason to believe that a chubby little person might be coming to stay this summer at my house. As far as I know, this individual has no intention of ever leaving and may very well insist that I do things like clothe it, feed it and comfort it when it's upset. No, it's not my mother.

Working on two books simultaneously is a new experience for me and a difficult one. Not that the two projects are really that dissimilar in theme, but they each require a completely different voice and if you know how I work at all, you'll know that I also like to build multiple narratives into everything I write, so trust me when I say that there's a crowd of characters in my head at the moment, all chattering wildly and competing for my attention. Add to all that a sense of urgency that hovers over me like a storm cloud and you may know how I'm feeling.

But 2009 was a year of fits and starts, of things never getting quite finished and of me wondering what I was going to do next. 2010 will not be this way. Instead, I feel wrapped up in a cloak of certainty. I know what I'm supposed to be doing and I just have to go ahead and do it. Psychologically, this is better for my anxious brain. Busy and certain is much better than bored and confused.

So off I go to stare at my manuscripts yet again (it's not quite at that point where words are swimming together and reforming into gibberish, but it will happen, it always does). My theme for the next few weeks: POST HASTE.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2009

BECAUSE YOU CAN'T PREDICT THE WEATHER

 

I know this is a total cop-out as a post, but BIG CHANGES ARE COMING, to both my personal life and my writerly one. So watch out for announcements soon. In the meantime, enjoy the grooving doggies.