Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Highlights from our Getaway Part I
Jon and I went away for a long weekend, or a short week: five days. Either way, here are the highlights from that getaway:
First, I actually didn’t work while I was gone. I didn’t check e-mail, or twitter, or facebook, or myspace, or any other social network. I made two notes on the last day we were there, because they were new ideas. New ideas run away and escape if you do not write them down. This maybe the longest real vacation I’ve ever allowed myself. Is that frightening, impressive, or both?
We visited our friends Wendi and Daven.… Read More
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Fever Dreams, Sex, and Zombies
The strange and more vivid dreams continue, my imagination playing in my head because it’s not getting to play on paper, but then I got a fever. The combination of my untapped imagination and a fever made for a very interesting night in dreamland. Cue the maniacal laughter now. Wa-ha-ha-ha-ha!
You know how with a fever sometimes you don’t sleep well? It’s a fitful, restless kind of sleep, so that you sometimes feel less rested the next day, and you usually have weird dreams with a fever, but . . . I dreamed about sex all night. Every situation, every… Read More
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Waking Dream
People ask me if I have vivid dreams or nightmares. Normally, the answer is no. I had a spat of nightmares a few weeks back, but I finally figured out what issue I was working subconsciously and once I dragged it out into the light of day I was able to work the issue rather than have it work me over. My dreams are usually about issues I’m working, or need to, or my spiritual practices. I’d forgotten that one of the side effects to not writing is that my dreams change. The other night I dreamed about fairies, as… Read More
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Sunday, February 21, 2010
What I Really Wanted for my Birthday
My birthday was Friday. I’m not a big one for celebrating birthdays. I don’t even usually take the day off, but this year found me exhausted from the fourth book deadline in a row that had kicked my ass. I needed a day off and it turned out to be my birthday, very serendipitous. People asked me what I wanted for presents, and for the first time I realized that nothing I really, truly wanted could come in a box with bows and wrapping paper. What did I really want as a present?
I wanted some time where I wasn’t… Read More
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Flirt on The List & the Lists
Flirt will be #3 on the New York Times list week of February 21st. Yay!
We are currently #5 at Borders.
#6 at Barnes and Noble.
#7 on Bookscan.
#11 USA Today.
Thanks to everyone who bought a copy of Flirt. Glad so many of you have enjoyed Anita’s extra adventure for the year. Thanks also to everyone who’s let me know that the nonfiction piece in the back of the book has been useful or insightful. How do I get my ideas is one of the questions people ask the most of a writer. I did my best to… Read More
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Monday, February 15, 2010
The Deadline that would not Die
I’m still working at the first of two scenes I need to finish for Bullet. I’ve done seven pages, but it’s still just set up. I’m now at the meat of the scene and I don’t want to do it. Three days off between the last big push and now just don’t seem to be enough to refresh me and my muse. We’re still tired. Dusk falls around me as I try to write, and I feel punished.
Trinity was looking forward to some mother/daughter time, and so was I. She went with Grandma and Grandpa to see the movie,… Read More
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Sunday, February 14, 2010
No Little Lost Lamb, because the Wolf is coming Back for another Bite
I usually do this Little Lost Lamb thing when a book is done. I wander from room to room at a loss. I don’t know what to do with myself. I wander into Jon’s office and bother him, then wander out to other parts of the house and bother everyone a little. I’m like this gloomy little cloud of, “What do I do now?” I’ve been working so long and so hard on a book and suddenly it’s done it’s as if my brain and body can’t figure out how to do anything else. I have to decompress and go… Read More
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