So last night I was yapping at the Hubster (he never actually responds) and for some reason I got to talking about all through high school and college I would come up with KICK ASS paper topics, do all the research - TONS of research, but when it actually came to writing the paper, I got bored.

Things haven’t changed a whole lot. I still do the same thing today. That’s why I don’t outline. I write for *me* not for an audience really. So if *I* already know everything, the fun isn’t there anymore.

Just like if I already know how “Traditional Native Medicines impacted the US Pharmacopia” (yes, that was a real paper), I’m not really interested in telling anyone else.

Now, that said, I am learning to like rewriting. I’m teaching myself how to like rewriting.

I look at it as kind of a giant puzzle. It’s all there. I just have to put it into some kind of cohesive structure that can then be admired by others.

Now all I have to do is get myself to be able to do both at one time (write one story while rewriting another) and I’ll be unstoppable!

I’ll try to set up Wordpress to post for me the next few days - I’m volunteering at BEA which is going to take up an obscene amount of time the next few days (I’ll have to be on the metro at 7am tomorrow - that’s barbaric!) so if I’m scarce, you know why.

Sorry, my creativity is sapped at the moment. I can’t come up with anything more clever than Wednesday.

I have a book which I really need to turn in ASAP - the final Fate book - May 30th at the latest since I’m going to be gone for two weeks after that.

In theory it doesn’t sound so bad, until I tell you that with all of the other stuff I’ve got going on in the next two weeks I have 4 full days in which to finish this book.

If I’m scarce, you’ll know why.

And as much as I need to get this book turned in, I’m really excited to start on my next project. Unfortunately, I don’t know what it is.

I think I want to write a sequel to Secret Agent Man. Sam had a friend, a fellow agent named Fabio, that I’d love to give his own story. But “career wise” I’m not sure if that’s the next book I should be writing.

But…I don’t know that I care either. I really hate to think of writing as a career (even though it totally is) because that’s when I write crap and the whole thing becomes less fun.

So decisions, decisions. It doesn’t really matter anyway. I’ve got to finish Fighting Fate first (lovely illeteration there).

What are you working on? Have something fun percolating in the back of your brain?