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Link: Affliction is Done!
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I thought I posted this two weeks ago, but apparently not. *laughs* We were both pretty fried for the week after I finished Affliction, but then Jon and I went for a week’s vacation some place warm and tropical. We snorkeled in the open ocean and it was wondrous. We did a lot of fun, relaxing, and spirit renewing things for our week and a day, now I finally post the blog I wrote just after I typed, The End, on Affliction the 22nd novel in the Anita Blake series.

I finished writing Affliction, the newest Anita Blake novel, at twenty minutes till dawn on Sunday/Monday morning. Jon wanted to wait those minutes and watch the sunrise together. Jon doesn’t normally stay up for the 0′dark-thirty finishes and I was still riding an incredible writer’s high, so agreed happily. We found the perfect window in my office, wrapped our arms around each other, and waited. The sky lightened and turned to streamers of pink and purple to the east, with the bare winter trees like black paper cutouts against the light, but Jon said, it wasn’t dawn yet. Though we both agreed that any vampires out and about would need to be worried and headed for cover. In the growing light we saw the Great Horned Owl silhouetted between the darkness and the dawn. It was this huge black outline in one of the trees near my office. You forget how big he is, until you see him like that, big as a large Red-Tailed hawk, hunched and waiting for the light, or maybe settling down for the day? And yes, I’m pretty sure he is the male, because the slightly larger female must be sitting on their eggs if they’re going to have them. They are both very big birds even for Great Horned Owls.

I admit that by the time that the sun rose and the sky was blue, I was tired and ready for bed. I’d finished a twenty hour day of writing with only short breaks for food. I’ve done those marathon sessions before. In fact most Anita novels finish in a great burst of time, energy, and creativity, but for the last several books of any kind including Merry Gentry novels I’d ended drained and half in shock left like an empty shell on the shore, spent, but not this time. This time I am more energized, and less dead, more vampire, less zombie. In a few days I feel that I may rise to shapeshifter and feel all warm and fuzzy again, but for now I’m just happy to feel good about the book, the writing, my life, myself, all of it. Really, when all is said and done, what could be better?

Date: 2013-03-16 03:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] collectively.livejournal.com
I have to wonder, though, what IS 'Affliction'?

(aaargh she explained it TWICE in the span of TWO SENTENCES and the punctuation argle bargle *foams at the mouth*)

Date: 2013-03-16 07:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-sporking-rat.livejournal.com
And yes, I’m pretty sure he is the male - this entry

We have new pictures sent to New York, yes, of me - last entry

I'm doing Wizard World St. Louis ComiCon on Saturday March 23, 2013, yes, this month. - entry before that

Is this a new quirk? Because I really hate it. I know it's such a small petty nitpick thing but that BUGS me. And I think it would still bug me even it weren't LKH, I swear.

Date: 2013-03-16 08:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dwg.livejournal.com
No, it's not a new quirk. It's in the same vein as her habit of asking question and then answering it, like "did I leave the house this morning? Yes, yes I did."
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Date: 2013-03-18 07:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dwg.livejournal.com
Or *grins* what is this, 1997?

Date: 2013-03-16 09:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wanderingworlds.livejournal.com
We snorkeled in the open ocean

As opposed to the closed ocean...

... wrapped our arms around each other...

I imagined a couple of octopodes/octopi/octopuses...

Date: 2013-03-17 11:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] duamuteffe.livejournal.com
I am how amused at how even her owls have to be bigger than anyone else's.

Date: 2013-03-18 12:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rodentfanatic.livejournal.com
*obligatory big hooters joke*

Date: 2013-03-19 11:59 am (UTC)

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