Jason and the muse

May 11, 2007

Okay, I just did twenty-seven pages today. Twenty-seven pages on the Jason novel/novellite. I went back over my calender and found when I started the project. I have done 147 pages in ten days. Ten non-consecutive days, which for me is even more impressive. I usually have a fits if a project is interrupted even a little bit. But my muse is hitting me heavy on this one.
I keep thinking it will be a novellite because this is how MICAH wrote; so fast. But at 147 pages if it was going to be a novellite it would need to end at about 200 pages. I don’t see the plot wrapping up that quickly. So, I still don’t know if it’s a novel or a novellite. By the way 200 pages is long enough to qualify as a novel. It’s just that my usual books run between six hundred and a nine hundred pages. So two hundred is a novel-lite for me. If the book goes to four hundred that it’s just a novel, a little shorter than normal, but a novel. If the book hits three I’m screwed because it will be short for a novel, but too long for a novellite.
I admit to a little anxiety about the page count at this point. And it’s tempting for it to be two hundred. I could, theoretically, be done in a few days. That is like sooo appealing.
I’m going to go take some aspirin, Tylenol, whatever. Get some hot tea and sit down for a second. Got a writing group tonight, but it’s social so it’s more like a low key party. Which will be fun, if I can shake this headache.
I’d probably have been better off getting on the treadmill, but I did thirteen pages in about two hours. After doing fourteen earlier today. It’s hard to argue when the muse is so very happy.