I have no idea what to say today

I spent the weekend writing pretty much nonstop. I haven't done that in a long time. I think I ended up with around five thousand words over the two days. Months of writer's block nearly destroyed me. I averaged about five thousand a day before I let myself be dragged down. Five thousand is a good round number. That's a fifty thousand word book in roughly ten days. I can't do that many words in ten consecutive days. My fingertips tend to swell up when I go on writing benders. Maybe I hit the keys to hard, I don't know. Maybe its the Fibromyalgia, though that's never really bothered my hands. Who knows. I consider thirty days to be a good comfortable time period to write a fifty thousand word.....okay who am I kidding. I wrote Wicked Game, all sixty-two thousand words of it in thirty days. I was a basket case after that. I forgot to eat. I considered bathing and basic hygiene to be detrimental to my plans of world domination. And Wicked Game has proven to be my master piece if you crazy readers are any indication. One I can't live up to by the way. I forgot what my kids looked like that month. And in December I crashed. Seriously, I slept for an entire week once I decided I was finished. I hated that book so much I refused to look at it until March. I sold it in April or was it May. I can't remember. This was too long ago. Nearly two years since that fateful NaNoWriMo.

So this weekend I got into this cop meets history teacher story I've been fiddling with for a few weeks. I even titled it. Crazy From The Heat. It's the story of an undercover narcotics detective trying to keep the zombie making drugs out of the local high school and the history teacher who finds himself smack dab in the middle of the investigation and central to Paul's every waking and sleeping whim. I thought about calling it Hot for Teacher. But i sort of don't want another banned book on my hands. Even if Paul is thirty and not the seventeen year old jailbait that he's posing as. And yes the teacher, Grey, does know before they get involved. Lesson learned. Only push some hot button topics. Leave the rest alone.

Okay so now that we're all caught up, I'm going to go soak my fingers in something like Icy Hot and get some sleep. Tomorrow we're taking the kids down to Gulf Shores for the day. If it doesn't rain. If it rains then we'll just do some outlet shopping or something. Talk to you Wednesday.

Mercy