I suppose true blogging is off the top of our heads, and my head is pretty fuzzy, so watch out!
It's late, but I'm the Wednesday Wench (now you see why I wanted it!) and being a west coaster I want to put down something before I go to bed.
So why is my head fuzzy? Because I've just sent of a proposal for my next book. Next after TO RESCUE A ROGUE, which is coming out in September. Have I mentioned that enough?
But this proposal (some of the book and a synopsis for those who are wondering) was supposed to be in in March. Things got busy in March. Did I mention that my next book was supposed to come out in March 2007 and is now coming out in September? We went to England in April. I spent most of May in jet lag. So I've just sent off about a fifth of the book and a synopsis that kind of trails off into "...and stuff happens and it all works out."
Because I don't pre-plot. My books kind of unravel -- or do I mean ravel? -- as my son says, if there's inept, what is ept? Or as Dare Debenham says, "Can a violet blate?" You'll have to read the book. Out in September.
Anyway, I don't pre-plot and if I try it really does screw everything up, so I can only give vague notions of what might happen in the future. What does happen in the future is always much more interesting. My brief synopsis of TRAR had nothing in it about leaking gas, Chinese wisdom, or The Ghastly Ghoul of Castle Cruel. Or, come to that, the startling truth about Delphie Martin.
But it wasn't tidying up the proposal and sending it off that made my brain fuzzy. It was dealing with Word.
You see, I write on a DOS computer using an ancient but wonderful program called X Y Write. I have a tranquil writing life. Grey on black. Nothing jiggles or make suggestions. Nothing, not a thing, has changed in about 15 years. Bliss.
However, my editor and agent are happy to receive my work via e-mail. This is a good enough deal for me to put it into Word. I'm used to it and it's not usually a big problem. This time the demonical program kept putting in blank pages and refusing to scroll. No, don't tell me why. I've defeated it. (By working in Open Office instead, that's how. :: evil cackle::) But it's left me fuzzy-brained.
But okay. Because that's done and I can spend tomorrow in the relatively relaxed process of going over the edits of my dragon story. You want to know about the dragon story? Next time.
:: Yawn:: If there are typos in this, you'll have to excuse me. When I'm tired, my eyes don't focus anymore.
Did I mention I have a book coming out? No, not that one. The other next one. The reissue of LORD OF MIDNIGHT. In July. Which is almost tomorrow. That got a starred review from Publisher's Weekly, so you have to read it. Them's the rules.
Goodnight.
Jo :)