Raggy bears, shaggy bears, saggy bears, too.
mood: 
confused
confusedmusic: Blues Traveler - The Mountains Win Again
Not only am I sort of moderately ill, which, combined with the rain, has derailed many of my brilliant plans for the week, but I appear to have a case of post-novel ennui like you would not believe.
Writing books really empties out your brain.
This is a bit of a problem, as I still have the whole climax and resolution of New Amsterdam to go, and it's due Dec. 31.
Yanno what? I'm declaring a vacation until after Thanksgiving. My brain is empty and I am stupid and full of suck. Then I will write the two brief articles I have due in the first week of December, and then I will revise "Chatoyant and write "Lumière" (aka the end of New Amsterdam) and if I can't get excited about les loups de Paris and la bête du Gévaudan, dirigibles and treachery, it's time to hang up my hat.
After that, it's the Dust proposal by January 15th, and then the All the Windwracked Stars rewrite and a gonzo space opera novella by April 1.
If anybody told you the life of a freelance artist was all bonbons and games...
...she lied.
But it sure is fun.
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says the reader who has only made her way through the first part of the Subterranean opus, and wants more already ;-)
Authors. Whatta ya gonna do?
Hope you feel better soon...I too am in the Badlands of it's wet and cold out and I'm sick and I don't wanna do nothin', so there!
Feel better soon!
So does lounging about watching I Spy. *g*
...and a free bonus French thing I'd never heard of! Truly your writings are both amusing and useful.
Okay, so it has scantily clad papal assassins and noble savages and is generally ahistorical and silly.
But it's a pretty fantasy, sort of like Ladyhawke is a pretty fantasy.
Also, you can sorta see things from the Bad Guys' point of view, even as you find yourself rejecting it.
Bad Guys should be real people, with real reasons for what they're doing, otherwise they're made of Magical Cardboard*.
*This means they have the ability to turn everything else in the story into cardboard, too. Magical cardboard in dangerous stuff, and I'm glad you keep it out of your work.
*ponders, then adds Ladyhawke too, just on general principles*
I think a Thanksgiving break sounds plendid. Do it.