to go or not to go
Did a very bad thing last night--I made the humongous mistake of watching Barbara Walters's 20/20 interview with Terri Irwin, Steve Irwin's widow. Aaack! Talk about a tear-jerker. I can't believe Terri was even coherent enough to speak on camera only three weeks after his death; I'd still be a basket case, hiding in my house in the fetal position.Let me tell you, it is not easy to write while you're sobbing your guts out. I made a valiant effort, but it wasn't easy. Then I got one of those post-crying headaches & couldn't breathe through my left nostril for the rest of the night. Ugh.
Surprisingly, I still managed to sleep pretty well after that & didn't want to wake up when my alarm went off. (Who does, huh?!?) But I did...& it's a good thing.
First, I managed to get some really good writing done today. Not a ton of pages, unfortunately, but really decent stuff. I slipped into the hero's POV for the first time in this story & am just loving it. That happens sometimes; for some reason, I often enjoy being in the guy's head more than the girl's. Or maybe it's just that I enjoy the change of switching POV...it gives me a chance to see things from a whole different perspective. :-)
Then my agent called to tell me he'd managed to wrangle a couple of extra weeks out of my editor for the revisions on FORTUNE'S FORBIDDEN WOMAN. Yes, I'd whined, I admit it. Not with the intention of getting an extension...I actually hate extensions, because while they solve the immediate problem--or at least give you a little more breathing room--they also end up putting you even more behind schedule for the next project...but he went ahead & got one for me, anyway. What a champ! :-)
And now that he's done that, I'm rethinking my decision to skip the NJRW conference next weekend. I don't really have any specific plans for this conference (you know, hitting a particular workshop or meeting with an editor or agent) so even though I always enjoy myself at these things, I was thinking it would probably be wiser to just stay home & write. At the moment, I'm on the fence about it. I printed driving directions so I could see how long a trip it would be, & I'm thinking about all the packing that would be involved--blah!--but I just cannot decide whether I should go & risk losing writing time that I might be sorry about later (really, really sorry, as the case could be) or be disappointed for a short time that I couldn't go & just stay home to write, write, write.
Is anyone here planning to attend? Even just the Book Fair Saturday afternoon? I'm supposed to sign there, which gets a huge check in the "Go" column. But again--deadline. Whaaaaa! I don't know what to do. Chances are, it will take me until the night before I'm supposed to leave to truly decide. :-(
Currently listening to "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" by KT Tunstall
Currently reading Key of Valor by Nora Roberts
