Thursday, March 30, 2006
A tiny bit of progress
I managed a few sentences, maybe a few paragraphs yesterday. I sat on the couch and wrote long hand in my writer's notebook with the dogs crowded around me. In Sasquatch's case on me. He's always willing to act as my lap table for my notebook. Though even the smallest computer is too heavy for him, and he'll leave my lap in protest ousted by the bit of technology. But no tech yesterday, just a pen and paper. What little I did get was good and the plot limps ahead. I left Merry to the rear of the battlefield… Read More
Posted by LKH on 03/30 at 09:43 AM
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
My favorite pair of jeans
Got up today feeling sort of pitiful, so I dragged out my oldest pair of jeans. They are almost twelve years old now. They've lost what fashion sense they may have started life with, but they are sooo comfortable. Jeans worn until the material is actually soft to touch, a brushed softness that no amount of prep can really duplicate. I wear them sparingly now because I know their days are numbered. The inner seam of the thigh now has a hole that is high enough up and big enough that wearing them out of the house is a… Read More
Posted by LKH on 03/28 at 06:37 PM
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Trying not to whine
I haven't put a blog up in a few days because I hate whining. I especially hate whining when I'm the one doing it. I had a reaction to some of the medicine I've been on for the acid reflux. A reaction that only shows up in about one percent of the population. So my doctor changed my meds which caused another problem. I'm okay. We've got me on meds that finally seem to be a little kinder to my system, but it has given me a new respect for suffers of chronic pain. I've had only a few… Read More
Posted by LKH on 03/26 at 10:08 AM
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Happy Everything
Happy Purim, which was early last week. Happy St. Patrick's Day which was late last week. Happy Spring Equinox which was Monday. What have I been doing while all of you were celebrating holidays? The copy edited manuscript of DANSE MACABRE came in just before we went on tour. No way to take a twelve pound book on an airplane. Editing at copy edit stage is difficult traveling anyway, but the size of the book just lended itself to loosing pieces. That would have been bad. Our new copy editor, who is amazing, would probably have cried if we'd… Read More
Posted by LKH on 03/23 at 06:43 AM
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Doubts
No pages at all yesterday. Merry and I are both dreading this scene. She wants the same deal I made Anita after GUILTY PLEASURES. I promised her after we lost you-know-who in that book that I wouldn't kill off anyone else she loved again. I didn't use the name of the person who doesn't make it because more and more people are starting at the other end of the series, so not everyone has read GUILTY PLEASURES. It's getting harder and harder to give talks at public events, too. Spoilers, spoilers everywhere. Early in the series, I think book… Read More
Posted by LKH on 03/16 at 01:11 PM
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Eight pages
Eight pages done on MISTRAL'S KISS. Yea! The most pages I've gotten done since the amazing news about MICAH came. If you're wondering why Mistral got mentioned in the title before Doyle or Frost, or anyone else, well, some of my other title ideas with the other men's names in them, were considered too sexy. Don't ask me, I just work here. Anyway, I'm done for the day before school even lets out, very cool. What will I do with a few minutes of free time? It happens so infrequently I'm not sure if I remember what you're supposed… Read More
Posted by LKH on 03/14 at 12:50 PM
Monday, March 13, 2006
Building pressure
I can feel something moving liquid and almost real inside my head. Some idea, some book, or story, something. It's been percolating in the back of my head for awhile. I'd thought it was the end of the Merry book, MISTRAL'S KISS. But the closer the idea comes the more I'm not certain that it has anything to do with Merry. Which is awkward since that's what is due next. I have to finish Merry before I can go on to something else. I want to finish Merry, but she and I are both afraid of this ending. Afraid… Read More
Posted by LKH on 03/13 at 11:05 AM