Thursday, August 27, 2009
Tough Week
It’s date night and if ever I needed one this is it. The stress of the last few days has been off the scale. I just took Sasquatch out for his last walk of the night and when I reached up to get his harness and leash, there was no other leash. For the first time in nine years we have only one dog. It was one of those moments, that make you pause, and your chest gets tight for a moment not like you’re going to cry, but just a moment to begin to deal with the loss.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Blog and then Showers
Cleaning blood off my hands last night, a lot of blood, and I thought, "It’s a bad night when there’s this much blood." The fact that it was coming out of one of my beloved dogs made it worse. Pippin, our boxer mix, has dog agression problems. We’ve had a trainer come out to help us. We’ve got a shock collar for outside walks and strange dog interactions. We’ve done obedience with him. We feed him sepeartely. We make sure toys, treats, and such are not shared. But sometimes he just goes off, no warning, no trigger, just zero to… Read More
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
The Break I Didn’t Know I Needed
Feeling much better than I was on Friday. Very good friends came down to visit. I was actually stressed about the visit, not because I didn’t want to see them, but because all I could think about was, "Need to write. Need to finish book. Deadline, deadline, deadline . . . Ahhhh!" I’d reached that critical pressure cooker boil that I sometimes hit when a book is not going smoothly and the deadline is tight.
We’ve been trying to get Shawn, his wife, Kathy, and their kids, K & P, down here all summer. We finally chose the week… Read More
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Friday, August 21, 2009
Down with Guilt!
I’ve spent the week blaming Merry for the book, DIVINE MISDEMEANORS, kicking my ass both literarily, mentally, and emotionally. I’ve been blaming Rhys, Galen, Frost, even the newer men, and female guards. I’ve bemoaned, complained and otherwise grumped my way through most of this week work-wise. "Why is Merry always so much more difficult to write than Anita?" "Why can’t I do this?" Why, why, why?
I had my epiphany last night somewhere between date night sushi with Jon, Carri, & her wife, Pili, then parted ways, and Jon and I came back to enjoy the more private part of… Read More
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
How to Make Toast and not Kill Yourself
I started to feel a little fuzzy and realized I hadn’t eaten breakfast. I thought, okay, I’ve got one chapter rewritten I’ll get some food before tackling the main part of the sex rewrite. You need fuel for that kind of thing. So, I walked over to the main part of the house away from the offices.
I got a vitamin bar and some water. I checked in with Carri, my assistant, and Mary, and well, everyone. Trinity, our daughter was watching Top Gear on the telly. She’s still off from school for the summer. As I’m eating my… Read More
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Writing the First Novel & Writing the Twenty-Ninth
I’m getting a lot of feedback on Twitter, Face Book, and My Space about how much you are enjoying the deeper peek into how I write my books, but in reading some of the responses I realized there’s a problem. A lot of you are beginning writers or at least people with many fewer books under their belt than me. So I thought I’d be clear that this Merry book DIVINE MISDEMEANORS is writing very differently for me than any previous book, even previous Merry books, so the process is different and may not be conducive to your process.
Allow… Read More
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Saturday, August 15, 2009
Inspiration Brought to You by Red-Tailed Hawk
Started to try and Twitter this, but realized it was way too long for that. So, you guys get a second blog today.
I ended last post with a cry for inspiration. Jon came back from dropping Trinity off at her father’s. Jon had gotten breakfast while he was out, and handed me mine while I sat at my desk staring at the blog. He kissed me and left me to it. I sat in my big leather chair that’s in one corner of my office and ate breakfast. I was finally letting myself relax and listen to Drain… Read More
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