A Quiet House

Well, it's early Monday morning and I sit in a quiet house. Another weekend passed. I was away for a few and see everyone's been posting like mad. It's always cool to sit and chill out, reading the inner workings of strangers' minds. Sort of like group therapy.

As of Saturday evening, over a plate of Frito pie and fried potatoes, I officially became a moron by the way. I was mistaken about the visitors. They weren't coming this weekend but next. I cling to the edge of euphoria with breathy gasp and heaving girded busom...

Okay, not really.

Jason was here this weekend which is always good in this blog author's mind. It's nice to have him here. I'll get to go on a mini-vacation of sorts to the DFW area for three or four days (the first vacation I've had in four years) while the visitors are here, so that'll be cool. I hope I don't have too good a time, I might run away and not come back!

I'm making notes on my second novel while I fill in the blanks on the first, the one I've mentioned in recent posts. Some much-needed backstory is coming into view and I rather like where things are going.

My God, was that a glimmer of optimism shining faintly in the dark?...nah. :)

Dreaming While Waking

Ever had one of those dreams where you’re not exactly awake but not exactly asleep either? It’s called lucid dreaming and I’ve had some of my best ideas while in that mode. I hadn’t had one in a long time and this morning I had a good one. For a long time now I’ve been working on one of my stories, a 50k word science fiction erotic romance novel. Well, the ending always had me feeling ‘blah’ and like it didn’t deliver, anti-climactic in other words. It doesn’t matter how good the story is if the ending sucks. It’s the ending that a reader finishes with so it needs to be as good or better than the beginning and the middle. This morning it all came to me. An extra scene or two and a stronger sense of resolution. Finally. Now I regroup and plan my attack. It looks like I’ve got a good chance of getting it published considering that when I entered the manuscript in a contest a couple Summers ago, I got really good marks. I’ve been reworking it on and off since and at long last I might be seeing the end of this project.As we say in Texas I really really really want to finish this ‘summbitch.’