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Back on Track
I don't know about you, but when I get sick, rational thought seems to fly out of the window. Some people can write through illness but tragically, I'm not one of them. So in this last week and small change of being unwell, not being able to think straight, falling asleep at the drop of a hat, swallowing drugs like M &Ms, pushing myself to do stuff that I couldn't not do (like meet with my accountant and get to rehearsals) and glorming about like a drunk walrus the rest of the time ... of course I've been torturing myself.
I can't think! I can't write! I'll miss all my deadlines! This gloom and doom will never lift! I have no appetite for anything, my life is over!
Tragic, yes? But sadly true. I think they call it catastrophic thinking and I do indeed do this. I wonder if it's part of the creative psyche?
However, after one last viral assault on my body last night (no icky details, suffice it to say I was purged *g*) I seem to be sparking on all cylinders again. No headache. No sore throat. And a decent supply of energy. I've had errands I had to run, and have run them, and still feel good. No exercise today ... I'll give myself a couple more days to make sure I'm well and truly unviral before I push that one.
So many thanks to the kind folks who posted get well and cheer me up wishes in the previous blog entry -- I wasn't really up to replying then, and now the moment's passed, but I do want to say how much I appreciate the good thoughts.
Also to cheer me up, I got an advance copy of Hammer of God in the mail today -- and it looks lovely. I tell you, for so many reasons, this book was a killer. Even now I have little perspective on it. One of these days I'll talk about the process of producing my first trilogy, in the hopes the journey will illuminate things for other writers.
But, for better or worse, it's done. And my sights continue to train on upcoming projects, of which there are many!
In other news, the vagaries of life permitting, I'll be attending the Romantic Times Booklovers' Convention in Orlando, Florida, next April 22-26. I think it's going to be a lot of fun. It's a convention for readers and, yes, book lovers. People who don't sneer at popular commercial genre fiction. People who actively enjoy, celebrate and promote popular commercial genre fiction. In other words, my kinds of people, who don't complain because fantasy authors dare to continue playing in traditional fantasy fields. I don't know yet exactly what I'll be doing there, but when I know, I'll share it!
And in that vein, congrats to Richard Morgan, who wrote that wonderful piece about the nonsense that goes on in the spec fic community. He just won the Arthur C Clarke award for Black Man. Well done!
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