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I’m trying to do a blog today in hopes of getting my head back in a working space rather than a sick-leave space. I’m feeling pretty pitiful today. Unless the bite looks better tomorrow we’re going to have to go back into the doctor. I’m really not wanting to do that, but I will, if it’s called for. And no, it’s not the worst case scenario, if it looked that bad I’d go to the emergency room. Promise.
Jon and I need to finish up at least two of the pending interviews. If I do go to the doc tomorrow then I need to recheck the time when that phone interview is coming in. We have three outstanding interviews due by Tuesday when A LICK OF FROST, hits the stores. So at least two today, though we might have to settle for one depending on how I’m feeling. Of course, what isn’t finished today will have to be finished tomorrow, so, it’s a sort of borrowing from Paul to pay Peter situation.
But more bothersome to me on the amount of time and energy necessary is that there is at least one scene in BLOOD NOIR that needs a bit of rewriting, and one major scene that needs written and put in. Doing interviews where someone asks me the question, in this case Jon, and I dictate or help type my answer, takes less creative energy than writing a scene from scratch. But I really need this book in New York before I hit tour. To be this close to finished and have to step up to concentrate on Merry, and the whole rigmarole of tour would kill the momentum I’ve built up. I just can’t do that again. Not when I’m one rewrite and a new scene and it would be done. Yeah, there’s some dialogue that needs changed, maybe a minor character that need cut here and used later, oh, shit. She does need cut and I need to replace her interaction with Anita with the other woman. Damn.
Okay, two rewritten scenes and one new one. Sigh.
I hoped by blogging today, it would put me in a better frame of mind for it all. Honestly, I think I feel tireder now. Have I eaten breakfast? No, I don’t think I have. But I slept in some, and I’m only on my second cup of tea. Tea, or coffee, two cups is minimum for being a thinking human being. I’ve actually asked my accountant if I could deduct the coffee and tea expenses from my taxes, because it is an essential part of my working routine. She says, no. Music is also not deductible, even though I always write to it. I’m going to go huddle around my mug of hot liquid. You guys have a good Sunday.