Can't stop giggling!

I've been feeling down because I haven't had a lot of readers for Warriors of the Sun God. I work hard, after all. I want people to actually see it!

So I posted an ad. And I've already gotten tons of hits!

Any new readers, welcome, welcome! I'm so very happy to see you!

and yes, I'm giggling gleefully. FANS!!!!!!

Obsession of ideas

Why is it that the more I shouldn't write, the more my mind spits up ideas and plots? I live in a seething volcano of ideas, new ones being spat out in ever-increasing numbers to boil around my feet when I'm least able to dance on top of them.

I started a new story today. One for the Death Machine anthology, which means I have to write it fairly quickly. I have until the end of April to finish it and submit it. Normally, no real problem .. but what to do now? Do I work through the pain? Do I do my best to take care of myself, and the hell with the opportunity?

I want to write. It calls to me, sings to me, whispers sweet seductions of miracles and insanity in my ear. It is what I am, all else stripped away. I will always be a teller of stories.

But when they say an artist has to suffer, did they mean so literally?

Carpal Tunnel Sucks

Yes, there's a certain irony in typing about why typing hurts. I'm being careful. And, this is a lot shorter than my actual work.

But it HURTS not being able to get work done. I want to write. I love to write. I spent all weekend wanting to write and not being able to.

I have to be good. I have to limit myself. I have to be responsible and be the grownup and take care of myself.

And it sucks.