I wish I could keep a notebook, but my handwriting? Looks like ass. So keeping a notebook has been more about playing writer than being one.ETA: Because it became a prop as I could not read myself, later. I thought maybe that sounded judgemental of others' yen for the paper. But I was also blessed and cursed with a photographic memory. Blessed at times like that and cursed because I'm often stuck with a disturbing thought till somebody says(sigh) "Are you still on that?"

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Going through my books some more. Would anyone like a copy of "Amateur Detectives: a writer's guide to how private citizens solve criminal cases", part of the Howdunit Series from Writer's Digest?

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This is nuts. It is. Attack novel, or something. I'm in the very high tension part of this thing, zooming in toward the solution and the ending, and I know precisely what's going to happen, what they're going to say to each other, the lot.

I wouldn't mind (in the sense of envy) except it is so good, so engaging, and I'm always WAITING WAITING WAITING for more.

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Lilty, I would totally get the pretty notebook. It would be like in the movies -- you know, inspirational music, a montage: me taking out my pen, and pretty notebook, writing, falling asleep on a park bench, with my glasses all crooked, 'cause in my montage, I have glasses.

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I wouldn't mind (in the sense of envy) except it is so good, so engaging, and I'm always WAITING WAITING WAITING for more.

Honey, I wrote three thousand words on this thing yesterday. Thag want feedback! Except I'm pretty sure it doesn't need much - and then there's the part of the brain that says, jeez, bitch, you really are in love with yourself, kiss the fuckin' mirror and get over it, it can't possibly be going this smoothly.

There's a bit, earlier on in the book, where my female protagonist tells Our Hero that the way to frell a lie detector test results is to choose one of two paths, and go down that one: either go completely zen, or else be agitated from the first moment.

I keep going between agitated and zen on this book. Another 12K to 15K words, I think, and it's done.

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Except I'm pretty sure it doesn't need much - and then there's the part of the brain that says, jeez, bitch, you really are in love with yourself, kiss the fuckin' mirror and get over it, it can't possibly be going this smoothly.

I started to give feedback, and it came out all fangurl, and I already sent that, yesterday. *g*

Seriously, I love the pacing in particular. I feel like the main character and I just catch our breath, and then there's something else, which is, of course, what life is like.

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Lilty -- take one thin spiral with you. Then, you have the perfect excuse to buy exciting European notebooks and/or pens when you run out of space.

You might consider mailing them back home as you use them up. If that's not outrageously expensive.

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Deb, I'll have comments later -- we had two baseball games this morning, and we're going to my mom's to see my brother in a minute.

Susan, I hadn't seen the RWA alert -- I have to figure out how to sign up for them -- and no one told me the traditional Regencies were getting the boot! (Of course, since I don't actually work there anymore, it's not like they're required to!) Bummer. I love them, and I had some fabulous authors in that program.

Oh, and I have a column up today on Romancing the Blog about geeks, if anyone's interested.

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Another four pages on chapter 12 done. I should have the finished chapter in an hour or so.

But I remembered I'm supposed to ingest food to stay alive, so breakfast break, is me.

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no one told me the traditional Regencies were getting the boot! (Of course, since I don't actually work there anymore, it's not like they're required to!) Bummer. I love them, and I had some fabulous authors in that program.

I don't think it's been official-officially announced yet, but I trust the person who passed along the news not to do so unless she thought it was definite and reliably sourced. Avalon and Harlequin/Mills & Boon are going to get DELUGED.

(A note for my critique partner S if she's still lurking--if I were you, I'd get a query and synopsis in the mail to H/M&B Historical NOW. As in, mail it by Monday. Beat the rush. Fivestar too: [link] I'm not sure your heroine is wholesome enough for Avalon, tho'.)

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Another 2,000 plus words. Chapter 12 finished. A heartbreaker to write, this last bit. I still seem capable of bleeding on his behalf...

Sent to my WIP readers.

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