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I’m beginning to be puzzled by the blogs. Some of you are really enjoying that I’m answering more fan questions. Other’s want more writing advice or insight. Some are missing the little bits about our daily life. I’m left, as with everything I write, unable to satisfy everyone. It’s one of the reasons that you can’t write to every one’s preference, because for every person you make happy, you make someone else unhappy. It seems to be the nature of the beast. Sigh.

There are days when because I know I can’t make everyone happy, I just don’t want to write anything here. Then I realize I’m a grown-up and I long ago gave up this childish idea that you can please all the people all the time. It just isn’t possible. Again, sigh.

So, a blog that will please some of you, but not all of you.

I did eighteen pages yesterday. I believe it is the most in one session for A LICK OF FROST so far. I think the next most is like twelve or fifteen. I’d have to check the calender and that would mean this will never get posted today. So, an estimate will do. The last day that I got close to so many pages I then went into the afternoon session on a different project and a page was way hard. So, lesson learned. I’m finding that afternoon projects on something totally different sort of refreshes me for the book next day, but not if I’ve done some amazing page count in the morning. Eighteen pages meant no afternoon session on anything. My muse and I were done for the day. But that’s okay, we’re on deadline, or a wee bit ahead, for everything. Which considering everything we’re doing, that’s pretty darn good. Hopefully soon we’ll be able to tell you everything that’s in the pipeline, but down the road we’re probably going to be working on things that may not come to pass. Afternoon is for trying different things, new things. Stephen King used to do books that he wasn’t sure would pan out. He’s stated that he has unfinished books where hundreds of pages in he lost the thread in the maze, and couldn’t finish, or lost interest, or whatever. But some of those books became some of his most successful books. (No, I no longer remember the name of the essay or where I read it. So I don’t know the title of the books that he completed this way.) If it’s good enough for Mr. King, it’s good enough for me.