Spent the last two days doing research and revisions for a novella that a plot and location change impacted significantly. For the better, but there’ve been a lot of details to pay attention to, and I have been dutifully paying attention to them.
But the crack book lurks and pounces. I wake up in the wee hours of the morning and there it is. “Look! This scene! This is how it goes!”
I know how this works. If I start to write the scene, I’ll look up hours later and I’ll have written another chapter. So I’m not going to fall for the “just this little bit, just a page” song and dance. I’m sticking to the novella.
When novellas are gone, crack book can have its way with my brain.
(Yes, novellas are fun, too, but the revision work uses different mental muscles, which is probably why crack book is so omnipresent right now. It’s using the rest of the brain space not currently occupied. Which leaves me nothing for daily life so I’m trying to avoid turning on the stove.)
I feel your crack! LOL No seriously, I’m so there but I’ve got to change gears. But…but its HARD cuz the novella is erotica and I can’t seem to escape the children (which is SO NOT EROTIC).
Amie, me too on kids, sigh. I’m about to put “and then hot sex goes here” and move along.
“I’m trying to avoid turning on the stove”- that’s my feeling too, probably for different reasons (this last thing I want to do is add hot air to the apartment- I’ve managed to not turn on the a/c so far- and consider myself lucky- and don’t want to push my luck). Of course, there’s always the crockpot. 🙂
Crockpots are great for not heating up the place in summer! Also, if you forget about it for a few hours, nothing too awful will happen. *g*