Joely Sue Burkhart

You Know You Love Books When… 1. You need an addition on the house for your private library.   2. You have books stashed everywhere.  In the closet, under the bed, in the car…. 3. Because you can never leave home without a book! Or two. 4. You need an extra suitcase when you travel–just for books. 5. And you still buy another one (or three) at the airport. 6. You might have 3 or more books started at any one time. 7. When memes ask you to name your favorite book(s), you panic.  How can you possibly narrow it down? 8. You’ve joined strangers’ conversations because you overheard a discussion about your favorite author’s series. 9. You named your kids after favorite characters in a book. 10. You won’t lend your prized books to certain people because you’re afraid you won’t ever get them back. 11.Or you’re afraid they’ll dog-ear your pages, crease the spine, leave Dorito fingerprints on the pages… 12. You always check the bookshelves at Wal-Mart, the grocery store, even the gas station (despite have a leaning Tower of Pisa TBR pile) just in case you find a new book you can’t live without. 13. The kids own just as many books (if not more) than you do, and the school LOVES your Scholastic Book Club orders!

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Something I’ve gotten lax on that I’m reminded of from my Fast Draft success in March:  avoiding e-mail and internet until the page goal is met.  In fact, the chance to check e-mail can be used as a reward every x words/pages.  Now that I’m on the EPIC lists, I’m getting bombarded with e-mail.  A lovely excuse to dwaddle.

No more.  I need to shut down my internet completely except for my music.  By the way, my playlist for the end of the novella includes:  Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler, Desert Rose by Sting, and Everything I Do by Bryan Adams.

Word Count last night:  519 words

Sven total:  39,234 words

TFW total:  33,453 words

Climax one is complete.  Rough and patchy, but complete.  Now for climax 2 and Eleni’s greatest fear.  Will she be able to resist her brother’s corruption in the end?