excuses, excuses

So here I am, having a grand old time imagining the story of my villain, and I've gone and forgotten all about last week's assignment. My goal for this evening was to finish the editing and send it out, but now I can't find the finished file, although surely it must be somewhere because I have the hard copy and... well, you get the idea.

So what do I do now? Do I retype the last two scenes or would that be a waste of time? Do I continue this blog post? Or do I...

I think I retype the last two - no, three - scenes and have done with it.

In the meantime, how's about an update? How's the new setup treating you, Kiki? How's the training for the half-marathon coming, Lori?

~Andi

Update: 2/10/10, just past midnight.

Couldn't bring myself to retype seven fucking pages when the damned file has just GOT to be at work. Have made progress with a scene in Sanctuary that's been blocking me for a while. Brian asked this evening how I was going to have time to actually work on the book when I'm busy working on the assignments. "Well, when I'm working on the assignments, I actually am working on the book. The last short story gave me some information about Paxton that I just didn't know before. And this latest one is making my villain real, so that he doesn't disappear when he turns sideways, like Gwyneth Paltrow on a MasterCleanse. And, like Lori said, they keep the juices flowing." He gave me a rather lewd look at that. "You KNOW what I mean." "Yeah," he said. "I do. " So that's OK.