Do you ever have one of those weeks where you desperately need quiet, but struggle to find it? I’m not talking about external noise…not really. I’m talking about that inner noise that you just can’t shut up. Random thoughts about the weather, theme songs that refuse to go away, the voices of characters that you’re not currently working with chit-chattering about this and that…
It’s unnerving how many sounds we have bouncing around in our skulls.
…or is it just me?
After the exhaustive, blissful, happy news recently (yes, Jacob’s adoption, but also The Other Thing–you know, the thing I can’t tell you Minions about yet), it’s been a challenge to keep my butt in this chair and write. Or rather, to revise NINTH GRADE SUCKS. But I have to do it. After all, you all know my formula. Butt + chair = writing. It’s just a little difficult to keep my butt in the chair when I’m floating up by the ceiling…
But something is creeping way too close for my comfort. My deadline. May 15th. So it’s time to work, get this story done, so that Vlad can have a break (even though he’s been chattering on about his sophomore year quite a bit lately), and so that I can go back to working with Devon. But to do this…I need quiet.
In other news, the planning of the Best Book Launch Party EVER is in full swing, and my now-annual trip to NYC is coming up in just a few short months. Lucky you, you can meet me there! All you have to do is go register for the Backspace Conference. I’m on a panel with Barb Ferrer and our agents. I may puke, but hey, it’ll be exciting. 
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I know what you mean about revisions. But the new voice in my head that hasn’t said a word in several months, my mc from my other series. Archangel Diana is just screaming for me to get back to her book. Good luck!
Heather,
I can definitely relate. Ideas for stories yet to be written play out scenes in my head. The next novel in my series is asking to be written. Yikes. I better get started!
Okay, word verification for me is:paxlc
Could that be Paxil?? LOL!!
Meditation, meditation, meditation.
If you hop onto my blog, there’s a link to 100 Days, an online group that supports each other’s ups and downs with the noise in our heads.
After meditation, you put your butt back in the chair and write.
LA, I hear ya, girly! But we’d better figure out a way to lock those charcters into their padded cells so we can focus. Agreed?
Paxil?! Isn’t that the social anxiety medication that gives you the runs??
Devon, you’re always so wise and sensible. I’ll check it out! :-*
Heather,
Paxil is mostly for depression, then mood disorders, which do include social anxiety. Sorry, that’s the psychologist in me trying to get out! :*)
Could it be that word verification is pushing pills for large companies?
Heather, I’ll try my best but you know how that goes sometimes. ; )
Word verification is out to get us, Minions–beware!
Hmmm…mine says mptauu…what kind of sick hidden message could that be?