Praise to the Glorious One (Anne Stuart)
That's Yoshiki, better known as His Lusciousness.
But on to other things. It's done! ICE STORM is finished and delivered as of a few minutes ago, and I'm the ragged end of exhaustion, but I thought I'd pass along a few of my emails I wrote during the last, exhausting, 40 page day.
3:45 pm Friday
Where are my other toilers in the vineyard? I'm going to finish the draft today or die trying. Oh, shit, it's four? I woke up at noon. (Well, slept from one to six, woke up for a couple of hours, fell asleep on the couch, woke up, went upstairs at ten am and slept another couple of hours.)Hell, I'll be awake all night anyway.Book's gonna come in short, I expect, but not by much, and one of the scenes was already just sketched in, so that'll add a few pages.Besides which, I'm spare
Krissie, who personality is frilly but whose prose is not
4:00 pm
14 pages, to 376. I'm assuming I'm going to finish today. Richie's alreadybeen bringing me Tab and making me grilled cheese sandwiches, bless his heart. He's been making dinner very night as well, god love him. I keep getting spam saying my perfect match is waiting for me, and I always think, yup, he's in the other room.
Krissie
8:45 PM
22 pages. Tired. More to go. Almost done.
Krissie
9:14 pm
26 pages. More tired.
Krissie
10:38 pm
33 pages. Must ... rest ... must... get more tab ... must ... finish fucking book ...
11:21 pm
Richie just gave me a massage, god bless him.Now it's time to bring it all home.And damn damn damn this book is good. The world is not worthy!
Krissie
1:24 AM
Done! 40 pages, not a hotel in sight, and I'm too tired and not quite sure about the ending (though it made me laugh) and I think it just might possibly be utterly wonderful but right now I'm too tired to think about it.Tomorrow I'll print it up and then on Saturday and Sunday I'll revise this piece of brilliance. And then slash my wrists if I discover I've been suffering from delusions of grandeur for the last month and a half. Or open the Moet champagne if it's as good as I think it is.Too much champagne will give me gas, but what the hell. I'm worth it. The book's gonna be worth it.Now I think I will pass out. Krissie
******
So Saturday I read through it cleaned it up, Sunday I keyed in all the changes and fiddled with the scenes, and now, at 1 am in the morning, I've sent it out into the world.
And now I'm going to sleep for a week.
Anyone of you writers out there have marathon stories? What's the most you've written in a day (I think my record was 50-something but they weren't as good as this day's 40 pages).
Anyone know of a saner way to write a book? Ah, sanity's for wimps!
Patricia Potter
Tara Taylor Quinn
Maggie Shayne
Anne Stuart
Suzanne Forster
Lynn Kerstan
6 Comments :
We're totally in sync! I finished this weekend, too, and printed it Sunday afternoon. Now it's sitting on the kitchen table in a rubber band with a title page and a CDR on top, waiting to go to the post office. I sent the files last night. When's your release date for this one?
I'm taking today off. Then I have a novella and a synopsis due, in about two weeks. Yikes!
The book's coming out in November, which means I turned it in by the skin of my teeth. Actually I was supposed to get it in by Thursday (final extension) so in fact I guess I was even early.
All praise to the glorious one, and to the glorious Maggie Shayne as well!
Krissie
Oh yes, I'm one of those marathoners myself, particularly when I'm doing the last draft, making last minutes changes. I go a week with two or three hours sleep, then collapse. But forty pages a day? Ah, I wish.
Krissie,
I think I'll just borrow your e-mails if you don't mind - it'll save me time writing them. This is my marathon day. Yesterday was a 30 page day - in my office at 6 am out at 10:30 pm. This day number 28 in a row of all day in the office. What's a weekend? Or a weekday for that matter. The book has to end by 6 tomorrow morning. And the f---ing people won't go away.
Tara, you really do sound as if you're writing from the twilight zone. Hang in, darlin'. It'll be over soon! Sending hugs and STRENGTH.
Congrats on finishing, Krissie and Maggie!!!! Krissie, loved the part about your perfect mate being in the other room. There's many a day if Allan hadn't brought home take-out or made spaghetti we would both have starved.
Suz, getting ready to start all over again....
1:00 a.m. Just typed the end. It's not brilliant. Might not even be good, but it's done. Final analysis: Life is grey. Good people get hurt. Bad people get away with it. And in the end, there's still the promise of happily ever after.
Post a Comment
Links to this post :
Create a Link
<< Home