The Grind

My writing life is a love/hate relationship. There are days when I have so much to do I do not know where to start. I find clearing my desk must occur first, but then I get caught up in so much of the clutter, that I do not get to the real work at hand.

My novel calls to me but since it will bring in no money in the near future, it often gets the shaft. Yesterday I managed to get back to it. I am planning a retreat away from here in early December. I am going to go on a retreat to the keys and hole up in an apartment for seven days until I've got this novel nearly finished. It is possible to do because I'm approximately 15,000 words away from completion, but it is the completion that will take the most concentration. All the threads are there, I've just got to sew them all together.

Today I must put on my make up and heels and go to the Gainesville Woman's Club for a talk on A Lethal Legacy, my second novel. I am grateful for this opportunity to hone my public speaking skills and to sell my books, but it does require putting on some armor to put myself out there in such a public way. Later I am meeting with our newly formed Gainesville writer's group where I will share information from the writer's conference I just attended. I'm going to take my lap top and in between the two events in Gainesville, I'm going to go to a dark coffee shop downtown and write a chapter on Sweet Lady. I think I love today.