I made a spreadsheet for my WIP. It gives me the illusion that I accomplished something today.

 

We interrupt this blog for a brief plug for my actor son. No, he isn’t Tiki Barber.

So two agents LOVED my pitch for a novel that I’ve had to age up from YA to Cozy Crime/Chick Lit mashup. I think it’s my milieu* Fluffy, silly, funny (I presume), romantic wiseass is my voice. No good at lush and meaningful.

*I actually spelled that right on my first attempt. All those years of French were good for something.

I think plotting my new novel would be a lot easier if I could use Post It Notes. My favorite coffee/writing spot doesn’t agree.* It would also be very difficult to bring them to and from home.

*Actually, I haven’t asked, because…seriously?

The couple on one side of me in my coffee/writing spot is discussing the fun time they had the last time they got drunk. The three people on the other side are discussing alcoholism treatment programs in the DC area. I am not making this up.

Perhaps I should introduce them.

Nice to know my blog had some Canadian visitors…in case I have to move there.*

*Just kidding…sort of

My favorite coffee/writing spot was named “Best of the Best’ by Bethesda Magazine.*

The bad news. Now everyone will want to go there, and I might get stuck with the table with the wobbly legs.

*Even though it’s in Silver Spring, which means it must be the Best in the World.

There are few scarier moments in a writer’s life, except for the moment you open the reply.*

*If they send one. And they might not. Happens

Ok partners of artistic souls. Here’s today’s required reading.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/grace-unwrapped/2016/12/22/e75075a6-c30f-11e6-9a51-cd56ea1c2bb7_story.html?utm_term=.acc71db6cf66

 

*Or paints, composes, or anything else creative

You* know you need a writing break when someone you like a lot and haven’t seen in months rushes over to you in your favorite writing place and your first thought is, “I wonder how long they’re going to distract me?”

*Meaning me