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I just did sixteen pages in about two hours, maybe a little less. What I meant to do was just go up to my office for a few minutes. I was thinking about working on the Merry book, but . . . I’d done work yesterday and I find that one day off a weekend from the book refreshes me for Monday.
I called several places I’ve been trying to get a hold of for exercise stuff. Every one’s closed on Sunday, go figure.
I’ve had this idea kicking around in my head for awhile. It’s been poking at me, much the way the idea for the novel-lite MICAH did. So, as with MICAH, I thought I’ll just sit down and give myself a few pages to take the pressure off. Like I said, I have sixteen pages, and an outline for the next chapter, and notes for the rest of the book to about the early middle. Beyond that, I’m not certain. It depends on whether this is a normal size novel, or another novel-lite.
If it’s a novel-lite then I have to stay on target and not throw in so many tangential mysteries. If it’s a novel than I can throw in anything I want including the bathroom sink. I had to fight with MICAH not go get distracted, too. One idea will always give me more ideas, and sometimes it’s hard to tell if an idea belongs in this book or the next one.
What is this novel/ novel-lite idea about? You really want to know? If I tell you, do you promise not to bug Darla and the other board moderators. If this is a novel, then it’s the next novel for Anita. But if it’s a novel-lite, it may not be next at all after THE HARLEQUIN. It may be two books, or more down the road. So, please do not bug everyone and ask when will I finish, because I don’t know. I have to finish A LICK OF FROST first, then rewrite it. Jon and I have to finish up the comic script. I have to attend to my actually deadlines before I can go chasing rabbits.
But I like this rabbit. I like it very much. It was fun to write and it was quick. Quick like a bunny is a good sign.
If you promise not to pester people about when it will come out, because they won’t know, or for details, which they won’t have, I’ll tell you what the idea is about. Do you promise? Really, promise? Sigh. No one will know anything about this book. I don’t know when I will get to finish it. So, no clue when it will come out. I hope that’s clear to everyone. Here goes . . .
Remember the Jason idea that I mentioned in both a blog and in person at a question and answer session at more than one signing. Well, this is the Jason idea. He’s been walking into my imagination at the oddest times lately. I’ll be doing something completely unrelated, and there he is. Or, I’ll be writing something else and he’ll pop in. Sometimes, it’s just a look, a gesture, his smile. He’s been much on my mind. Finally, today, apparently, his idea had reached critical mass, and boom!
I now have almost as many pages of this book as I do of the book that I thought was going to be the next Anita book. Not to mention the out of town research I was going to do, for yet another book, if I actually do manage to finish FROST early.
If it’s a novel-lite than it can be finished in weeks, a month at the outside. If it’s a whole novel, then months, like normal. I have to confess that a novel-lite sounds like fun.
I should have known Jason was talking hard in my head when I purposefully tried not to use his mug this morning. You know the one that has the picture of him as a wolf and says, “Taking one for the team, anytime, anywhere.” I knew I was fighting off an Anita idea so I tried to use a more neutral mug. I thought I had. But when I got to my office this morning I was carrying Jason’s mug. Sometimes my fictional characters are sneaky pushy. Jason doesn’t mind being called sneaky. He looks at it this way, he’s not one of my main guys, so he has to be sneakier. He’s happy and I’m happy.