~ Thursday, April 12, 2001 ~

 

10:49 p.m. Well, it's a happy happy day. My Book Number Two has finally come. All the way from Canada, via the new book rate, which is now called "media mail," which seemed to have taken forever and which definitely caused me to start in on Book Number Three, prematurely, and that's not good.

Scattered throughout Book Number Three are all sort of dead giveaways to the important plot points for Number Two, and I felt as if I were cheating. I even had a nightmare about it. I'm impatient. but with an active guilty conscience.

But now, tonight, I can put Book Number Three aside and get on with the series and get back to the future in the proper way. Isn't the book cover cuddly and wonderful and already retro, even though the book was written in 1988? I can hardly contain myself.

I've always wanted to have something of this same kind of attachment to an ongoing storyline from the other side -- from the writer's side. A series of characters, a growing ornate elaborate backdrop, file folders and loose-leaf binders full of notes to simulate authenticity ... a nice, cozy fictional cottage you'd never have to leave ... that's what I'd like to be writing about when I sit down to write.

Maybe.

For now, I can't stick around and chit-chat.

I've been pretty good today: nibbled on some fish and sipped a bit of soup, but that's all. I fear, however, for my sanity because I have a package of spiral long fusilli in the pantry and each time I think about it, it gets bigger. Right now it fills the shelf, but in only a matter of time it will expand to fill the entire kitchen ... I'm going to have to eat it, I'm afraid.

Otherwise, nope. Nothing happening around here. Working on turning my old Cheaper and Better manuscript into an ebook. Watched a little TV, but I had to run from the room when I started to get nauseous when the scenes in ER (the first show) got bloody. There's a reason I never got hooked on that show. That reason is blood.

See the pretty book cover? No blood.

Ok -- I'm going crazy here. Must read book now.