Blogflog March 19

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This blog had me quite giggly, but I'm sure that's my issue, and not one of LKH's many many issues. Hey, at least she's talking about the books in this blog, and not stupid things I could care less about, like: her throwing up eel, her talking more about her guns then I've seen her talk about her kid, ever, or that she totally coined the term "Sometimes you nail the interview; sometimes the interview nails you."

Link to this blog here. LKH in Italics, me normal. Anyway, here's:




I've thought of a lot of things to blog about tonight. That we just finished watching the Disney movie, ENCHANTED, and it was great. All three of us highly recommend it.

My first thought was "Wait, now she's forcing Darla to watch movies with her?" Then I realized that maybe, just maybe, she was spending time with the kiddo.

I'm over half way done on the Merry book, SWALLOWING DARKNESS. That's nice, over half way done. I've found my stride, at last. The scene I did today was fun and frightening, beautiful and horrific. It was a Merry moment. I can't tell you much about it without giving away some very major plot points. I'm in the end game on the book, so I can't share. Sorry.

Seriously? Swallowing Darkness? Hahahaha. Oh LKH, we all know that this "Merry moment" you speak of is just Merry gaining yet another power, likely though some sort of weird sex. And wait, she's in the end game of the book, but she's only midway through it? It's nice that she's getting that pesky plot out of the way, for more sex. Because if the Merry books are lacking in anything, it's sex.

just wanted to reassure everyone that though I'm blogging about Anita, Merry is well in hand.

[Cheapshot]I'm sure Merry is in many hands. Haha. [/cheapshot]

I've been giving myself permission, if I finish the deadline pages early enough, to write on anything I want later in the day. What's been wanting to be written is Anita. I've never actually written two different books in two different series at the same time before. I've written one, and edited the other, but I've never attempted this much first draft of two books simultaneously. I wasn't sure it would work, but since the next Anita book is due at the end of November, it's not like the work will go to waste.

Poor LKH, being forced to write (by herself, even). It's not like her job is writing or anything.

I loved the first two chapters of the Anita book yet to be titled, but then I bogged down. I just couldn't seem to bridge the next scene. I put it away for a few days and just concentrated on Merry. Then an idea came to me, or rather a way to get Edward on stage earlier, at least by phone. So, chapter three was Edward on the telephone, and it worked. Now Anita is on the ground hunting vampires out of state and Edward is there.

Well, hey, at least Anita is back to doing something besides having sex, and bitching. And hey, Edward is always good. (Hope is flying around wildly in excitement at the potential return to plot.)

Olaf is on stage, and I've even brought back a character oft requested that was also in OBSIDIAN BUTTERFLY, yep, Bernardo. It's like old home week.

Oh good gods, she's going to screw all three of them. And we're going to get more subtle racism in this book. Poor poor Bernardo. (Hope just got hit by a plane. It's twitching a lot...I don't think that's a good sign.)

I almost didn't do this book next since we spend most of BLOOD NOIR out of town with just Jason. I didn't want to do two books in a row where we're out of St. Louis with less than the full cast.

Because if Anita isn't banging everyone, then feelings are going to be hurt. And wait, how can Anita go out of town with just Jason? Doesn't she need another guy to feed off of, at the very least? And when going out of town, doesn't she have to take people with her to ensure that no one tries anything while she's in their territory? I have a headache from thinking about this too much.

I actually work at one desk in the morning on Merry, then change to another desk and the second computer in the afternoon for Anita.

That's weird. I mean, I'll switch from laptop to scribbling on a legal pad when I'm writing, but two different computers & desks? Does LKH really need to worry about, um, cross contamination between the books? More importantly, would anyone even notice?