I'm an impatient wench. Want to know how impatient I am?

I finished editing my part of Lotus In The Wild this weekend even though me and Margie weren't gonna start it until tomorrow. I couldn't help it, I got all angsty missing the characters and started to reread it then just went ahead and edited as I read.

I also...wrote the opening scene for the next in the series, Lily Of The Valley. Again, I couldn't help it. My screensaver came on and some of the pics in it are of Tiernan all nakey and hot and pretty and...I couldn't help myself. And we're not supposed to start Lily until the end of the month.

So yes. Impatient much, Fae?

I also wrote another thousand words of my NaNo but am too lazy to upload it for validation right now so you'll just have to take my word for it. That put me officially over 30k for the month. Woot, I'm on track to finish in ten days if I keep going like this.

How is it possible to be writing a book in a month, editing a completed one, waiting impatiently to hear on two other completed books out to the publisher, starting writing *another* book and still be sitting here going *whine* "I wanna write..."?

And darn it Poppet's not on to indulge me so I guess I'll go to sleep. You know, sleep, that thing I don't get much of lately but randomly got 7 hours of today. And yet I'm still bored. God I need help lol. There's just no words for the lame. Is there such a thing as *too* much writing? I hope not or else I'd be in some serious trouble.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_LComa5m8c

Sweet wee Tat-chan...who was almost the face for Kintaro but got beat out by Kame instead. Tat-chan my sweet if you were any cuter I'd have to eat you up.

I felt it when Margie and I finished Bee Among The Clover and I feel it just as strongly now with Lotus In The Wild. It's like watching your child go off to college alone and all you can do is hope you did everything right and gave them everything they needed to succeed.

We're still waiting to hear from the publisher about Bee. The partial was accepted, as most everyone knows, and now we wait for the response to the full manuscript. We're not overly concerned by the timeframe, if at all, we've been keeping ourselves busy, as evidenced by the near completion of Lotus.

Lotus has turned out to be shorter than Bee but then, Bee was an absolute epic monster lol. It will probably top out at just under 110k words, as opposed to Bee's just over 160k words. I don't think it's at all lacking, despite being a good 50k shorter.

I'm personally thrilled with the way it's turned out. We weren't real sure when we started just what we were going for or what was going to happen, we had the barest beginnings and let the musi take it from there. Sure, we had to go back and rewrite some chunks and added nearly 6 new chapters smack in the middle of it, but in the end it all ties together in a nice little bow and I'm very proud of it.

Now as for the next in the series, Lily Of The Valley well...let's just say we haven't the faintest idea what we're doing with that one, other than it will likely be amusing as hell because both Cate and Brandr are always good for giggles.

But I'm mourning the loss of Kintaro and Wulfgar. The little Lotus and the big barbarian have made an astounding impression on me and I will miss them so much. Even more than Roman and Aron, I think, because Roman and Aron at least will be revisited in the final book of the series. Wulfgar and Kintaro will, sadly, be gone for good. I want to cry at the thought.

*sighs* Well, I guess it's the epitome of the old saying "All good things must come to an end". I just wish it weren't true. Darn me and my attachment to musi. I'm so used to them staying for always and continuing to give me story ideas. It takes some getting used to, to say goodbye all the time.