Christmas and writing

First, a Christmas update from the Queen of Christmas. I managed to find Christmas trash bags! What a coup! And I've got to chase down my aging Springer Spaniel and wash her so I can put her Christmas collar on. I've been making Christmas tree wallhangings (a Lynnette Jensen design from Simply Quilts that you can still find on the website -- though it does have a small mistake in it).
Here's the url:http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/cr_quilting_blocks/article/0,,HGTV_3299_1396914,00.html
If you decide to do it e-mail me and I'll tell you the goof (they leave out measurements for one of the white squares).

Very pretty, very easy and very nice.

I've put up my Christmas clock that plays carols every hour (much to my husband's dismay) and I've even started knitting again, despite the carpal tunnel. But the funny thing is, I'm longing to write.

Usually I take Christmas off, though this year I don't have the option because I'm behind on the book. But I want to write it. It's one that's insisting on being in long-hand too, which is a drag because it takes longer, but some books like to be written that way. (COLD AS ICE was almost entirely long-hand). I use Clairefontaine paper (have you ever seen paper that would make you orgasmic -- this is it!) and special pens, and it just flows. Creatively and physically. Like writing on silk.

That's always been a good way to get past being stuck in a mss. And even though I started on a manual typewriter (I've been writing a looooong time) I've often written my love scenes long hand. There's just something about the physical connection, I think.

Oh, and you might check out today's Squawk Radio -- Teresa Medeiros is blogging about Daniel Craig, my newest obsession. Get thee to a movie theatre.

www.squawkradio.com

So I'm off for lunch with fellow writers, an interview, some Christmas shopping, and then I get to come back home and curl up in my red recliner and write some more about Isobel Lambert and Killian, the most dangerous man in the world. Yum!

So who else has seen Casino Royale? Who else is blown away and madly in love?

Fa la la la la la la la la la!