She Runs! She Jumps!

[rolanni]

Project: Crystal Dragon
New Words: 716
Total Words: 16,203
Goal: 120,000 +/-

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A pretty fall day spent mostly inside, except for a futile trip the post office. No checks. No money orders. No quartershare payment. Hm. Must write dea'Gauss.

Spent some time rereading the notes I left for myself regarding the direction of this book. Obviously, my real notes have been taken hostage by aliens bent on world domination.

My brain, such as it is, has been helpfully feeding me scenes from a book that is (a) not the book I'm working on (b) not the book that kinzel is working on (c) not the book the synopsis of which Madame the Agent is pitching. I found myself wondering, as I drove out this morning, if I might not take a half-hour-or-hour a day and kinda sorta write this other book on the side. Arrrrgggh.

kinzel has some kind of chicken stew thing percolating in the crockpot, and it smells wonderful.

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[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Why do the books that don't have to be written start coming to call when you're busy?

My theory is -- because you are busy, and have all the windows open and bread crumbs on the sills to entice Ideas to come in. So, you get Ideas.

There's also probably -- at least for me -- more than a little "Ooh! Shiny!" involved in the Ideas that aren't under contract, which are over in the "work" pile.