I'm back....sort of.
I've spent the last two days immersed in dusty files and old filing cabinets. We are half done, but we ran out of appropriate boxes to archive them in, thus I have something of a reprieve today.
I am, however, moving my office today, so who knows how much I'll actually be online and/or at the computer. Moving requires not only the physical moving and setting up of things, but also IT coming down and setting up my computer so I'm connected to the servers again. And when they get to that is anyone's guess.
All of this means, of course, that I've gotten exactly nothing written since Tuesday. Woe! Even at home, I've been much more tired than usual. I'm not used to this manual labor stuff of moving boxes and files and filing cabinets. So, no words. :( But I've been mentally plotting those last chapters in my head, so that's something.
Also, my Mom has started reading it. She'd been bugging me about it, so I finally gave her a copy about a month ago. She called me last night and is up to Chapter 10, or page 68 (these are single spaced pages w/breaks between paragraphs, as people in my family tend to whine if you "waste paper" - whatever.) For those of you reading (ok, pretty much just for
kistha's benefit), she's read up to the Masque. Which means she hasn't gotten to any of the more explicit scenes yet, for which I am sort of grateful. I'm kind of hoping she won't comment on them. I warned her they were there, but I don't want to actually talk to my mother about the s-e-x in the book, you know?
So far, she is enjoying it and swears that the first chapter pulled her right in. (I have kind of a problem with the first two chapters - not that they're bad, but they're actually my least favorite in the whole book. People could make some incorrect assumptions from them, because they don't know what's coming.) But Mom says she thinks they're good as is and warned me I shouldn't mess with them. I'll wait and see what my beta readers have to say.
I think part of my problem is, I like the book more and more the further into it I get. At one time, the Masque was my favorite three chapters. But last night when she told me she was reading it, I thought "Damn, she hasn't even gotten to the wolves yet!".
Do other authors experience this, or is it just me?
I'm hoping I'll get to put some time in on it today, but we'll see how the moving of my office goes. And obviously, the files are only half done, so next week I'm not 100% positive how much time I'll be spending on it, even though my goal was to finish the thing by the 31st. It's still my goal, I'll just have to somehow try to make it happen!
I am, however, moving my office today, so who knows how much I'll actually be online and/or at the computer. Moving requires not only the physical moving and setting up of things, but also IT coming down and setting up my computer so I'm connected to the servers again. And when they get to that is anyone's guess.
All of this means, of course, that I've gotten exactly nothing written since Tuesday. Woe! Even at home, I've been much more tired than usual. I'm not used to this manual labor stuff of moving boxes and files and filing cabinets. So, no words. :( But I've been mentally plotting those last chapters in my head, so that's something.
Also, my Mom has started reading it. She'd been bugging me about it, so I finally gave her a copy about a month ago. She called me last night and is up to Chapter 10, or page 68 (these are single spaced pages w/breaks between paragraphs, as people in my family tend to whine if you "waste paper" - whatever.) For those of you reading (ok, pretty much just for
kistha's benefit), she's read up to the Masque. Which means she hasn't gotten to any of the more explicit scenes yet, for which I am sort of grateful. I'm kind of hoping she won't comment on them. I warned her they were there, but I don't want to actually talk to my mother about the s-e-x in the book, you know?
So far, she is enjoying it and swears that the first chapter pulled her right in. (I have kind of a problem with the first two chapters - not that they're bad, but they're actually my least favorite in the whole book. People could make some incorrect assumptions from them, because they don't know what's coming.) But Mom says she thinks they're good as is and warned me I shouldn't mess with them. I'll wait and see what my beta readers have to say.
I think part of my problem is, I like the book more and more the further into it I get. At one time, the Masque was my favorite three chapters. But last night when she told me she was reading it, I thought "Damn, she hasn't even gotten to the wolves yet!".
Do other authors experience this, or is it just me?
I'm hoping I'll get to put some time in on it today, but we'll see how the moving of my office goes. And obviously, the files are only half done, so next week I'm not 100% positive how much time I'll be spending on it, even though my goal was to finish the thing by the 31st. It's still my goal, I'll just have to somehow try to make it happen!