Mood: Super excited

What I'm Listening To Right Now: Something by The Shins but I couldn't tell you what it is.

Okay first, sorry for not posting these last few weeks. As you could probably tell by my last few posts, I was sort of burnt out. And maybe a little lost.

It's weird but after having my head stuck in my book for the last year, I sort of felt lost without it. Granted I still have work to do, editing mainly, but still. It's a weird shock to be finished with the story - have it all out - and then have to rejoin civilization.

I think it's something akin to the movie Encino Man, where the cave man is thawed out by Pauly Shore. Anyway, it's a jolt to realize the world is still rotating is what I'm getting at.

I've spent the last month or so wandering around wondering what my point is, honestly. I've had all kinds of trouble printing out the first draft of my book, and I really need it on paper to edit, I don't know why. I blame my time at a newspaper, we always edited on paper, not screen.

There are only 80 or so pages I've managed to pry from the rigid rollers of my printer and I haven't even had the will to want to edit them. I, in other words, had lost "it."

I lost my book ambition. I was burnt out. I haven't even been reading for Lucy's sake! You know I'm in a funk when I'm not reading!

So anyway, tonight while pondering my (and my book's) future, a sentence came to me. And no I'm not kidding, it just came to be. It was followed by a few more, until I realized that I had the first paragraph to my new book!

I've had the idea clinking around in the empty space in my head for a month or so, but all of a sudden, I have my opening paragraph. I quickly got up and ran, not walked, to get my notebook and started writing.

As I sit right now, I've written four pages front and back. It's what all writers hope for, dream of and long for when they're burnt out. It's simply called "Chapter One."

::deep sigh of relief::

I have "it" back! "It" being whatever it is that makes crazies like me sit down and think they can write a book worth reading.

Not only do I want to write and do nothing else for the next week but I also want to edit my other book. I want to dive back in. I'm a writer again!

I'm soooo excited. Not only about Book One, which is my baby, but Book Two, as we'll call it for now. Although I have a title already, which is ridiculous since I still don't have a title for Book One.

In January I made the silent resolution to write two books this year, and I've already let two months slip by without nary a new word written, so it's about time. And although I think writing two books may be a stretch, I can definitely see myself polishing off Book One and finishing, and possibly polishing off, Book Two. I can SEE it. Know why? Because I got "IT" back!

I know I've never gone into detail about Book One, except it's about magic/evolution type stuff, but I'll give you a little hint about Book Two. Killing and food. That's all. ;p

Okay, now I'm going to go attempt the absolute impossible, which is sleep. My mind is racing but my body is yelling that it's almost four in the morning. We'll see which one wins...

I'm baaacccckkkk!

-B

Labels: Book Two