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Goal was to hit the to do list hard today. So I finished up an interview before breakfast. Had breakfast, though our trainer will yell at us for it not being enough food. If you don’t eat enough food, and good food, while you’re trying to do a heavy exercise routine, your body will hold onto the weight, because it feels like it’s starving. My idea of morning food is brunch around ten o’clock. Sigh.
I’m listening to A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD, which is my Christmas music for this book. The fact that A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD, meets the same need means that the Christmas music is something that just makes me feel good on a day when I don’t feel like writing, or working, or being at my desk before ten. Morning is so not my prime work time. But with exercise, an elementary age child, dogs, and workmen coming and going, I just don’t have the luxury of not using my morning productively. Come to think of it, I haven’t had that luxury since before Trinity was born. Anyone who thinks that having a child won’t change their lifestyle much just doesn’t understand what they are getting into. And even those of us who do research it, don’t really understand. It’s such an all consuming experience, especially the first few years.
My musical for A STROKE OF MIDNIGHT is JEKYLL AND HYDE, two different productions and casts. I haven’t listened to it in weeks, why? Because I’m either feeling very low, or fine about the writing. So it’s FROG AND TOAD, or Breaking Benjamin’s SATURATE. Though I may try to bounce back to Thornley’s COME AGAIN, OR Three Day’s Grace’s THREE DAYS GRACE.
I still have one more interview that’s due today, and pages, oh, that’s right, pages. A book to write. Just five pages, if I can just do five pages then I’m done for the day. I’ve actually done eight pages two of the last four days, but whereas with Anita I can do eight pages as my minimum, Merry just seemes to tire me out sooner. Five pages a day, doesn’t feel like punishment. I actually woke today with the book in my head, and didn’t feel discouraged. It looks like Galen may actually get another on screen scene. Maybe. My outlines are always fluid, and subject to change, or character whim. Alright, character fit. Galen isn’t throwing a fit, Merry’s just realizing that if we do get pregnant that we’re going to loose some of these people, and she’s already starting to mourn the loss. She’s also worrying about some of the new men. Even the ones we don’t dislike, would you really want to be married to them? A weekend, or even a decadent month, but a lifetime? That’s a very different shopping list when you’re looking at men.
But for today I only have to talk to Rhys and the police via what I’m beginning to call ‘sword phone’. We have to clean up another assassination attempt, but we caught some of these guys. Prisoners to question. Then we will be summoned to the queen. Got the notes for that scene nearly complete, just type them off the stack of sticky notes. If I get through all that today, I’ll be doing really well, because that’s a lot more than five pages, more like ten, or even fifteen. Maybe even twenty depending on how much business we do with the queen. I mean somewhere in here Sholto needs to make his reappearance. That’s not a short conversation. Gotta go see how much of this I can get done today. I wish I could type as fast as I could think.