...what do you write about?
I started this journal because I wanted to keep myself honest about the writing. And for a while there, when I was writing every day, I was journaling every day with metrics and snippets and details and life was great. I haven't done metrics a lot lately, mostly because they'd read like this:
Monday: 0
Tuesday: 0
Wednesday: 0
Thursday: Does paying my bills online count?
Friday: 0
You see the drill. No darlings, no snippets, only the occasional emo angsting on Twitter. I haven't been going out and doing exciting stuff, I've just been sleeping and working, sleeping and working. Occasionally winding down with some X-box 360. Very little reading. Little to no writing.
I'm in the nebulous 'between' stage again, and we hates it, preciousss. For a variety of reasons, I'm holding off on new projects and am working on completing an old one that's about 75% done. You know how it is with old projects. They're like leftovers. They loiter in the back of your fridge like the virtuous, stockpiled-for-later things that they are, and you tell yourself "I'm going to eat that tomorrow!" Except when tomorrow gets here and all you have staring back at you is leftovers, you opt for pizza delivery (or the new manuscript) instead.
I *KNOW*. I do this with manuscripts all the time. "I'll come back to this one later! No problem!"
Except it IS a problem when it turns into leftovers. Still, I am being virtuous and slowly working my way through it, even if it is by small spoonfuls. I'm hoping April provides a little more excitement and guidance, but I think it's going to be a slow burn until the beginning of summer. We'll see. In the meantime, I am debating what to do with said story when I am done with it, since it looks like it will only be about 55k or so, max. And kind of nerdy. Romantic, but nerdy.
But who cares about all that, right? Did you see that Meljean Brook's awesome novella, "Thicker Than Blood" in the FIRST BLOOD anthology has been nominated for a RITA Award? The only paranormal novella - I'm so excited for her and I hope she wins! I absolutely loved this story.
Also nominated? Roxanne St. Claire’s excellent NOW YOU DIE and Nalini Singh’s MINE TO POSSESS.
Congrats to all the RITA nominations. 
