Time passes so quickly that it alarms me sometimes. How did I get anything done at all in my real life when I worked for other people? The truth is that I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, or at least I was only able to do whatever was absolutely necessary to live.<\/p>\n
Now my work is writing, and work at it I do, and yet it still feels to me that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m always short of time. Days bleed into one another, and weeks, and months, and a year passes without my quite being aware of how it happened. It seems that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m constantly busy, and yet I feel like I make little progress.<\/p>\n
Yet when I remember the monumental events in my past that changed my life forever, or set me on a new path, I realize that most of them happened quickly, sometimes in an instant. I think of that when I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m frustrated, when it comes to me that I have less and less time in front of me to fool around with and wonder if it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just going to be like this for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n
In the words of that immortal philosopher, Yogi Berra, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153it ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t over \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctil it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s over.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
With that in mind, I keep plugging along on the new book, and I finally see an end to the first draft, at least. I need a few more good weeks of writing. The end of this month is shaping up to be very busy, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m working hard to get as much done as I can before things get crazy. And speaking of good things happening, we are finally getting a new fence during the first week of March. I hope that means that there will be no more fence-mending for Donis in the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n
As for the new book, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interesting to see how it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shaping up. I may have mentioned before that no matter what you plan to write, things show up in books that never occurred to you when you started out. This book features Shaw Tucker, Alafair\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s husband, and I see that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dealing with a lot of his demons. Shaw\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always been pretty calm and laid back. I hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t realized that he had that many demons. Funny. You dig deep for your characters, and bring up a lot of stuff that was way down inside yourself.<\/p>\n
P.S. I have no title for the new book yet. If anybody has any great ideas, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m all ears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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