Laurell K. Hamilton writes lovely, ghoulish novels; this weekend, I'm hoping to steal away a little time to tuck into the book that launched the Anita Blake, vampire hunter phenomenon, GUILTY PLEASURES.
So I visit her LKH Blog, right? And I come across this line:
Okay, I just did twenty-seven pages today. Twenty-seven pages on the Jason novel/novellite. I went back over my calender and found when I started the project. I have done 147 pages in ten days. Ten non-consecutive days, which for me is even more impressive. I usually have a fits if a project is interrupted even a little bit. But my muse is hitting me heavy on this one.
Twenty-seven pages? Twenty-seven pages?
On a good day, I'll have six or seven. Granted, that's writing a historical, where I have to fact-check every paragraph a dozen times, but even so...
I feel so very, very inadequate.
Comments (2)
I absolutely love your books. I've read most of them a few times and I am anxiously awaiting your next one. The only one I haben't been able to get ahold of is The Burning Times, but I just found it on ebay. Thanks for being such a great author and writing such interesting books. "Should be".. your biggest fan, Jennifer Foley
Posted by Jennifer Foley | May 30, 2007 8:10 AM
Posted on May 30, 2007 08:10
Jennifer, You just made my day. When I'm in the thick of the daily writing grind, I get hypercritical of my work... until the book is finished, it all looks like dreck (to use a polite word) to me. But hearing from kind folks like you keep me going... Gee, I think I'll squeeze out a few extra pages today in your honor! :) Jeanne
Posted by Jeanne Kalogridis | June 8, 2007 8:22 AM
Posted on June 8, 2007 08:22