Helllloooooo! Surfacing. Today was a good writing day. Of course, tomorrow I won’t be home and the next two days after that my spawn doesn’t have school and then it’s the weekend. Really, universe, why must you conspire against me?
If I lived alone and could wallow in filth and eat out of cans, I’d get ever so much more writing done.
Anyway, I’m working on COLLIDE and I am loving this book. LOOOOOOVING. Which means writing it feels like fun, not work. Hooray!
Section of the day: (do I really need to warn you there’s a smidgen of adult content? really?)
I put my hands on my hips. “Yeah. I mean, I know it must be a pain in the ass to have people bugging you when you’re just trying to have a cup of coffee and a muffin.”
“Yeah. That can be a real pain in the ass,” Johnny said slowly.
I narrowed my eyes, wishing I could read his expression. “But you know what?”
“What,” Johnny said, and damned if he didn’t sound amused.
“I don’t think it’s because you’re shy or because too many people bug you, because let’s face it, most people don’t even know who you are any more. Or they don’t give a damn.”
His shoulders lifted and fell at that, a laugh or a shrug, with his face in shadow I couldn’t tell. “What about you?”
“I know who you are,” I told him.
“Yeah,” Johnny said. “But do you give a damn?”
I turned at that, my fists clenched. Then I turned back and forced myself to say, “Yes. I do.”
“Why?”
I didn’t know why. It was more than the ass, the face, the long-past fame. It wasn’t his art. It wasn’t his house, his money. It wasn’t even his coat or that long scarf I loved.
It was the heat of summer, and it was the taste of him I knew I couldn’t know. It was the feeling of his hair in my fingers and his cock up deep inside me, and it was the sound of his voice saying my name when he came.
It was the smell of oranges.
I’m up over 100 pages now, and I dunno about any of you writers out there, but 100 pages starts to feel like a real book. It’s about a quarter finished. We should know the characters. We should get a feeling for what’s going on. We’re half way to the halfway point, halfway to the place where everything has to start moving down hill. 100 pages feels like an accomplishment, like I’m making progress.
And, of course, like I said…the rest of this week is shot, the weekend is shot, then next week…thank God Thanksgiving isn’t next week, that’s all I gotta say. I can get this book finished before the end of the year, and won’t that just be fine? It will. It really will.
I’m still holding onto Three Months (working title, not sure what it’ll be called) because even though it’s finished, I feel as though I should look over it again once more after having let it rest. Normally I like to just get things off my desk, but I have time before the deadline. I’m going to look at it again.
There is always the danger of too much tinkering. You do need to know when to let it go. And I don’t think I have much tinkering to do. I just want to read it again, make sure it is what I want it to be.
So I’ll keep working away on COLLIDE (I do believe I might have some good time alone here this evening with everyone out and about, and instead of fertoodling around I guess I should get some extra work done for the times when I can’t.)
But now…I think there’s a dishwasher calling my name. Oh, it’s a saucy bastard, that dishwasher. It thinks just because it saves me from having to wash dishes by hand that I should be grateful to it, but FIE, I say. FIE!
later, gators.
M
November 10th, 2009 at 5:59 pm · Link
Keep chugging along…Collide sounds great, I can’t wait to read it.
November 10th, 2009 at 7:45 pm · Link
Oh Megan…It sounds wonderfuL! That whole flooded by the sensations of love, WOW!!!
Can’t wait.
November 10th, 2009 at 11:01 pm · Link
Sure I love your books and I suppose that could be the reason, but I always get a smile on my face when you talk about your writing and how much you love your job. Yeah, I know it’s hard work, but it’s great when you share the happy…
November 11th, 2009 at 3:39 am · Link
My Megan you’re making my mouth watering in full awaiting of that new book. That sounds so great, sensual and sinful in one, I can’t wait to read it. You did a very good job.
November 11th, 2009 at 4:09 am · Link
Megan, sounds like a great read. You’ve pulled it off once again. I hang for your books to come out and look for dates for the next release. Keep tugging away, we’re all waiting for our next erotic adventure. Finished reading No Greater Pleasure and No Reservations, thoroughly enjoyed both.
November 11th, 2009 at 7:00 pm · Link
Hi Megan, love your smidgeny snippet, keep up the good work:)
November 11th, 2009 at 10:10 pm · Link
You sound happy. Chipper, even, but not in manner of Fargo. Keep it up!
November 15th, 2009 at 11:29 am · Link
I just found your site, due to having just read Deeper. I enjoyed your writing/the book very much.
I am enjoying checking out your blog as well. (I call my kid “spawn” too…she’s a teenager…’nuf said.)
I too refer to 25,000 as the magical “half-way to the half-way” point.
My tv passion, however, is dead…it died when Gilmore Girls went off the air. Ironically, this was where your Padelecki(sp?) began, and his character’s name was Dean. Alas, except for True Blood on HBO, and the occasional Jon Stewart daily show, I stick with movies for my time-sucks. I miss G.G.
Make it a great day.
~L
February 7th, 2011 at 2:10 am · Link
I love your books and I have two questions. The first is how can I find out what Collide is about? (Or can you just tell me?) And the second is is it related to any of your other books? I always love to see the connection between them. Thanx in advance!
February 10th, 2011 at 10:17 am · Link
@Erica: Collide is about a young woman who had a brain injury and…wait a minute. I think I updated my….
http://www.meganhart.com/collide/
There you go!
M