Friday

AGAIN!!!!!

"It's never gonna stop raining. Not until we drown." -- the kiddo as a kid when the rain wore him down.

One of the dogs woke me at two freakin' a.m. to get a drink. Now, I can understand having to go to the bathroom unexpectedly. That's normal. An emergency, even. But to get a freakin' drink?? Gimme a break. After he got his drink, I shoved his ass out the door anyway. Not that he did anything after he got out there, but I felt better for it.

Anyway, you know me and naps and rainy days. I wrote seven pages and my eyes were drooping so bad that I couldn't even read what was on the screen. (And it was in an eighteen-point font.) So I took a nap. A four-hour nap. Man, I felt good when I got up. I even wrote another seven pages just to prove it.

But I've missed my preliminary goal on this book: I intended to finish it today. Sadly, I'm still about thirty pages from the end. But I wrote a few extra "nothing" days into my schedule, and they should just about get it done and get me back on schedule. Next coming up for me -- after following this one with a proposal starring the hero's little brother -- is a novella. I never was great at writing short, but everyone's going shorter these days, so it's a good skill to learn.

And in between things, I'm making a quick trip to Dallas. Leah and I are cruising down to help out at our chapter's T-shirt sales at the RWA national conference the second weekend of July. We'll swing by and pick up Liz, hit the conference hotel, sell the hell out of those T-shirts with fellow chapter members Linda, Ashley, Deanna and maybe Margaret, spend the night at Liz's, then head home again.

So if you're in Dallas at the RWA conference, come by the Romance Writers Ink and be prepared to part with $17 for the coolest T-shirt on sale. And say hello while you're there. Liz, Leah and I will be happy to see you.

Even if it's still freakin' raining.






Rachel9:07 PM