The Fascination of the Mundane

I've started keeping a writer's journal. Partly because I was inspired by Stephen King--at the end of the 6th Dark Tower book, he included a bunch of journal entries that relate to writing the Dark Tower series. But mostly because I was in a cold, noisy Starbucks and couldn't concentrate on writing anything else.

I think it will be fun to look back on later. And it's good to have a record of my thought process--ideas and working out plot problems and stuff like that. It reads like any journal, except that I'm mostly talking about writing. But I also write about the distractions that keep me from writing, which is quite entertaining. It's like a whine-fest with my muse, whose name is Maynard and looks a little bit like Columbo, hence the photo.

I'm in a weird mood tonight. Kind of antsy and twitchy. And I'm getting a headache--too much staring at the computer screen.

I miss this blog. I do so much on Multiply now that I forget about Dating the Tooth Fairy sometimes. But I want to keep it going, so I will try to do better about updating.

Work tomorrow. It's not a big deal when I'm there, and I would be lost without the paycheck. But I wake up in the morning and say, "Ugh, I have to go work." It's just whining. I like my job. I just don't like getting up early and dressing up. Last week when I went in to the office, the internet was down all day. I didn't know what to do with myself, not being able to check my e-mail a million times throughout the day. Golly, what did us introverts do before e-mail?

In other news, ha ha, I finished my third novel in March, and now I've started #4. It's another murder mystery, naturally, but it's my first one without a cop as a main character. I tried really hard to make the guy in this one a cop, but he would have none of it. So he's a reporter. And his name is Oliver, which I am not too wild about, but sometimes a character just shows up in my head fully formed (except I usually have no idea what they look like) and says, "Hey, this is my name, and this is who I am." It's a little disconcerting the first time it happens, but then you get used to it. And it's useless to disagree--if I try to change what they tell me, I run into all sorts of problems.

I have a full-blown headache, so I suppose I should go to bed. But I really am going to do better with updating.