Better today

May 10, 2006

Feeling some better today. I’ve never had a book get to ninety pages then just stop, and tell me this isn’t working. I think the plot will get used down the road, but there’s something about the weretiger stuff that needs to be touched upon in the next as yet unnamed Anita novel. I’ve learned not to argue with my subconscious, I usually regret it later. But it still feels like wasted effort. I now have an almost equal page count for both books, how weird is that? Very weird for me, in fact, a first. I’m usually pretty goal oriented and driven, so once I’m this far in, well, it just keeps going. It’s an uncomfortable feeling. But my original plan was for Jon and I to finish up the script for GUILTY PLEASURES when I finished MISTRAL’S KISS. Maybe this is the universe’s way of telling me to get back to it. I’m also going back to the longer book. But today while I decide which way I’m shifting gears, novel or script or divide the day between, we’ll finish getting ready for the Romantic Times conference. Decide what clothes we’re taking, that kind of thing. All my comfortable dress shoes are wearing out, I have to go shoe shopping. I hate to go shopping, especially for shoes, because comfortable dress shoes for a woman is almost an oxymoron.