Literally.<\/p>\n
THE DAY<\/p>\n
Yet another life maintenance day, mostly spent dealing with the bats–yes, that was a plural–and then updating the website (a garden that must also be planted) and potting tomatoes that just MUST be potted already.<\/p>\n
Completely stressed all day over the new idea for a book. \u00a0Sometimes I think I do this because starting anything that I\u00a0know\u00a0<\/em>will be a long slog\/haul always makes me question if I know what I’m doing.<\/p>\n Then, too, it has been such a tough last two years, with no books coming out on my end that I worry I’ve forgotten how.<\/p>\n Then I think back to the past 10 days and, particularly, the last three days when I just\u00a0despaired\u00a0<\/em>of finishing in time because the story just wouldn’t cooperate and become the story instead of the whole NOVEL it wanted to be.<\/p>\n But I do know how to work to deadline and, thankfully, the parameters were such that I could massage the word count. \u00a0If it had been firm, I’d have found a way, too.<\/p>\n So that, really, was the day. \u00a0Gymed, did errands, all those life maintenance things.<\/p>\n But I have to write this book and sell it now because I gotta pay for the bat repairs to the bat house in which I find myself.<\/p>\n *** Wow, talk about damning with faint praise. Literally. THE DAY Yet another life maintenance day, mostly spent dealing with the bats–yes, that was a plural–and then updating the website (a garden that must also be planted) and potting tomatoes that just MUST be potted already. Completely stressed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3903,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions\/3903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWhat I’m Watching:
\nMotive. \u00a0<\/em>Still. \u00a0It’s harmless.
\n***
\nWhat I’m Reading:
\nHer Dark Curiosity\u00a0<\/em>by Megan Shepard. \u00a0I’m not a fan of Gothic romance (I’m not a fan of romance, period), but I do like the old books on which this series is based. \u00a0I wasn’t wild with\u00a0The Madman’s Daughter\u00a0<\/em>(the love triangle drove me crazy) and I’m sure that will happen here, but I’m a sucker for well-done Gothics, and I liked TMD well enough (enough that I got pissed but kept going, wondering why I was).<\/p>\n
\n***
\nWhat I’m Listening to:
\nStarted\u00a0Extreme Prey<\/em>, which might be a mistake. \u00a0Ferrone is a terrific narrator, and Sandford has a very solid style that’s easy to appropriate. \u00a0So I might have to stop. \u00a0We’ll see. \u00a0Might to to\u00a0Dracula\u00a0<\/em>instead; more in keeping with what I’m going to be working on next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"