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So, I'm stuck now on what I'm working on. Really stuck. This is supposed to be a short(er) SFR piece. More space opera than what I typically write. Very escapist type storyline. I started writing it last winter/spring in fits and starts because it wouldn't leave me alone, even though I was devoted to another project at the time.  (Yeah, I "cheat" on my main project with another occasionally. Not proud of it, try to resist, but sometimes it happens). But at this rate, it's going to take me as long as a full-length novel! (Although I really, really hope not...)

 

I think some of the "stuckness" is because my brain is in edit mode, thanks to the EOB edits I'm working on as well. Sometimes you just lose that rhythm and it's hard to pick back up again. Everything feels offbeat...and not in the good way. Unfortunately the only situation is to keep plugging (or typing, as the case may be) away. The great part is, if you do that long enough, everything will eventually start to flow again...at least that's been my experience so far. The rough part is getting to that point.

 

Anyway, the purpose of all this blathering is to say that I usually beat myself up on this kind of thing, trying to figure out some way to keep moving, figuring I must be doing something wrong. But then, this week, Lisa Shearin (fabulous fantasy adventure author) and I were exchanging emails about writing books on schedules and she wrote a blog entry about it that contained this (and many other) fabulous line(s)..."I'm arriving at the conclusion that novel writing -- like any other creative endeavor-- refuses to be confined to the schedule of a mere mortal." Ha! So true. And I'm so relieved it's not just me.

 

Other stuff...This weekend a new version of Persuasion (my second favorite Jane Austen novel) will be on WTTW-11 (I think that's Chicago's PBS station) on Sunday at 8:00 p.m. It stars Anthony Steward Head (Mr. Giles from Buffy!) as Anne Eliot's father. Anne is the heroine. I love her. She is fabulous but in a totally different way than Elizabeth Bennet. As a younger girl, she fell in love with this guy, Wentworth, that her family disapproved of (he had no name and no money) and she turned him down because of their advice. She was too young, really, to really  know the ones who were giving her advice, if that makes sense, and know they weren't people she should listen to. Then, years later, he comes back with both a name and money (made his fortune in the military) and Anne's family is poor (and ridiculously spoiled, despite it). Now her family thinks Wentworth is okay, but he's courting this other annoying but younger chick. Anne is still in love with him, of course. Never stopped being in love with him. But, of course, he won't want her now. He never understood why she turned him down before, completely crushing his feelings. Can these two sort it out? *sigh* I LOVE this stuff. So, check out the book or the movie. Can't vouch for this version of the move, but the book is awesome!

 

Sarah Connor Chronicles also start this weekend on Sunday at 7:00 p.m. Can't wait to see that one as well. Hope the TIVO is fixed by then (long story...) I love that Summer Glau (Serenity, Firefly, The 4400 ) is playing a young Terminator. She just has that other-worldly look down pat!

 

Here's an article from Maureen Ryan at the Chicago Trib talking about Persuasion and The Sarah Connor Chronicles.