Notes from a Drama Queen

Good girl/bad girl

Friday, April 28, 2006

I've been wicked by not posting, but angelic because I've been writing up a storm. I'm now on page 225, hit another snag, but oh my heavens I love this book. But now that I'm at the halfway part I need something to catapult them onto the next level. They've already had betrayal sex, she hates him, he's starting to feel guilty, and he's so beautiful he makes my teeth ache. Yum!
Gotta get them on a plane for Japan. Not time for the idyllic interlude I was planning for them -- we need more violence to shake things up.
Back to work! At least the sun is shining (we had snow flurries on Tuesday). Brrrr.

Saint Krissie the divine

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

I just spent the week down in Princeton helping my 92 year old mother move from one apartment to another, and I foolishly thought I could work in the mornings before I dragged my poor aching body over to help. Silly moi. I had the great treat of staying in my former BIL's mansion while he and his gorgeous wife were off in Europe, but of course I accomplished very little. Seven pages of major info dump (when you gotta get a lot of information across to the reader in a very short time) that I had to then delete and save in a separate file because I belatedly realized there was no way my hero was going to have that kind of conversation with my heroine. He's much too enigmatic.
But then at least I got a decent nine pages the next day. Nine pages in one week with a deadline breathing down my neck is not good.
And when I got back here I was too tired to do more than two pages on Monday, though I redeemed mself with 12 yesterday.
Finally got past page 100. This is so frustrating, because I'm really enchanted with this book, but life seems to get in the way.

Aaaargh!!!