I think; therefore, I have angst. Be one with my musings and highs and lows as I go through this journey called life and this wish called BESTSELLERDOM.
...yet here I am, like it's not 5:32 in the morning and my behind should be IN BED.
But alas. I just can't sleep. Since graduation, I have been staying up 'til like 8 in the morning, and then I finally crash, only to sleep a few hours or the WHOLE DAY. To say I'm getting nothing done would be the understatement of the year.
Okay...that's a smidgen of a lie. I am getting SOME things done.
My Girl Friday, LOL, aka publicist, aka good friend, Tonya Howard and I have been trying to throw my name and RUNNING FROM MISS RIGHT into any and everyone's face. LOL I can almost TASTE a book deal. *thinking* And in the moment it took me to type THINKING, my excitement has waned. The moment I start thinking positive, something bad happens! Never fails. Let's just say that when I hear something definitive, you guys will hear it, too.
Aside from Tonya and I trying to bug people into picking RFMR, which is--and no, I'm not biased--one of the BEST books I've ever read...
...I've been doing other things, too. I've set a writing goal for the rest of 2004. I want to start the RFMR script...well, I have started it a few days ago. I want to outline a new chick lit novel. I have the idea down, but I want to get the story into outline form. I want to drag out my thesis and play with it again so my professor/mentor/friend can check it out and tell me what he thinks. I want to write three more episodes of Femme2Femme. If you don't know what FEMME2FEMME is, then I should disown you. It's the HOT new series on the RFMR website. I have seven episodes written so far, and I would like to get three more done because that would take me into the new year with episodes.
My other major goal is to get SOMEONE to pick up RFMR and my mystery series, DEATH @ THE DOUBLE INKWELL. It's my SECOND fave book. *smirk* And I don't say that JUST because I wrote it.
Well, anyway, I feel a lil better having written something here. It sure beats SMOKING. For the last two days, I've smoked about 11 cigarettes total. This is coming from a chick who only smoked ONCE in her life, about three years ago, when things were SO tough, I had to buy a pack of cigs. And then, I only smoked like three cigs...but I did get my drink on and got it on OFTEN. Things are a bit hectic for me these days...the cigs give my HANDS something to do beside pull my hair out or strangle someone...
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Lemme go. I plan to get up early so I can read some of Castiglione's "The Courtier," a book one of my professors told me to read. He gave me the first of many renaissance reading lists, so I can become a great scholar and get into a Ph.D. program and teach RENAISSANCE LITERATURE
feel haughty just writing RENAISSANCE LITERATURE), lol
I need to read that tomorrow, I need to have online office hours for my class, edit about 14 pages of a poetry book I'm editing for a client, continue outlining an English 102 course I'm teaching online in the fall, and work on a few more columns of the new issue of The Nubian Chronicles.
My job is NEVER....EVER....E.V.E.R. done.
I have no one to blame for my lack of sleep but myself! LOL
TTFN