You know it’s going to be a long day when you finally wake up to the alarm…and realize it’s been going off for four minutes.
This morning’s D&E was sporadic at best. I got up slightly late. The family had to be up earlier than usual, and since Mom = official timekeeper and wake-up call, I had to stop every 15 mins or so to make sure they were up. I got involved in writing between wake-up calls, so I actually got That Man up 10 mins late. Oops. Then I made the mistake of checking on my blog post – I’m over at Here Be Magic today talking about Barbarians Do It Doggie Style (in reference to Game of Thrones!) – and then I got involved in Twitter.
All classic mistakes during D&E. I shouldn’t have even opened an IE window.
So while my daily count may look respectable, it’s actually padded by 500 words I got last night and didn’t report. *sheepish* As I said yesterday, I’m in a BIG sex scene – the first big fully explicit on page in the “real” world scene – and it’s slow going. Writing good, interesting, non-skippable sex scenes is hard work, let me tell you. I might have to skip ahead and get some of the action scenes done, and then come back, because I’m tired. (More tired than the characters, evidently.)
Today: 1,128
Total: 18,360
Snippet:
He sighed, his arms tightening about me. “There’s always great danger whenever I return to your earth. A purpose awaits me. Beware until I’m at your side. You reek of my magic to anyone who can sense it.”
Darkness tried to claim me. I fought that slow slide to loneliness, even though it was a losing battle. Anguished, I cried out, straining to stay with him.
“Remember,” his voice echoed inside my head like thunder. “I come again as called, but this time, I come for you.”
{{hugs}} on the challenging morning.