Friday, February 6, 2009

PENULTIMATE!

Today was my last Friday at work! Just one more day to go. My boss is avoiding me because I have been insisting on training him. Someone's got to learn to do this stuff; the girl I'm supposed to train took off the last two days "because my daughter was sick." Two days ago, she told me that she was considering telling the boss her daughter was sick so she could go home early. Luckily, she stayed long enough to find out she got hired full-time as my replacement. That's pretty good timing, buddy.

I'm currently 4-5 days from being finished with my third book, tentatively titled The Cherubim. It's a science-fiction horror young adult novel that I've been working on since I finished the second draft of my second book, The Dead Rise. I like it much better. Action is way easier to write than an exploration of the teenage psyche.

And in six days, we'll be heading back to Tennessee. I had another couple of "wow, you're quitting? Right now? You don't have a job? Are you an idiot?" conversations today. After gamely reassuring the other parties that yes, I will be able to find a job, and I will be fine, I will not die in a gutter in the next few months, I wonder why I bother. We're doing what makes us happy, and no one's going to come out for the worse. That's all that matters!

2 comments:

  1. I absolutely LOVE horror. I have to finish this stupid women's fiction book I'm writing (that I hate) so I can go back to the ghouls and murderers I love to write about. : P

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  2. It's weird - I think whatever works, works. If it's a joy to write, it will probably be a joy to read. Whatever's hard to write is probably not going to turn out as well.
    Once I'm finished and done with these two, I have another idea that might be horror - I'll have to see when I get there.

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