Monday already?

Happy St. Pat’s day!

My lovely quote I want to share:

“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.”
– Gail Sheehy

This day has been busy for me. This weekend has! Jeez! My weigh in didn’t go as well as I’d hoped yet I discovered I did make my 6 miles for distance yesterday–YAY! (You can read more about that at my South Beach blog)

We had birthdays and anniversary’s and tournaments this weekend and I spent a lot of time both mentally and physically working on my book. A lot. Yet I haven’t really moved from this one spot.  I had several issues suddenly that needed to be researched. Do you know that it is a thirty hour flight from San Francisco to Thailand? Wow. In the end my Thailand scene is waiting for the next book. Time wise I didn’t have anything for that long of a flight and lets face it, if you’re on a flight with a hot hunk, (who you’re falling madly in love with of course) is nothing really gonna happen? Uh, yeah, right.  So not only didn’t I want anything to happen on that flight I didn’t have time in my story. And though I kept trying to write around that… I finally decided… save it, I’m trying to cram too much in one book. (One of the dangers of too much research! lol) The flights to Morocco are absolutely necessary and every minute there with the history and byplay is crucial to the ending. Soooo after days of researching cancer, custom, climates… (been doing that last part long before now)I’ve created ‘MY’ country south of Morocco and am FINALLY ready to move forward.

Ah! About blinking time!

I get a kick out of this cause, I had to spend days researching my cancer stuff for one paragraph. Maybe three if you take all the single references throughout the book which have been gleaned from that research. Sometimes I can slip on over little but big things like this. I couldn’t this time–I was to the point where what I ‘knew’ here made a difference in what happened or were my choices on how to end the book. So I had to ‘know’ things, not just think I knew. So that done, I now have an inkling of what kind of outcome I’m aiming for(besides the whole HEA which is assumed for me anyhow). And that makes me happy too.

What doesn’t make me happy is not being able to put my counter further along then it is. Defiantly though I’m still posting it - there is progress. I just hope that by the end of tomorrow I’ll be caught up with my thousand words a day starting March 1st, for Sven. then I’ll be happy all the way around and still on target for getting this lovely ms in the mail.

WIP

15,000 / 70,000 (21%)

Have a good one everyone!  Happy writing!

Cole