Only In My Dreams

Last week I had a dream that I was giving a talk about writing. I'm not sure why. It seemed that it was some kind of class project and we all had to get up to defend the stories we had written. Class? Not even sure who was in it though I recognized some faces from high school. -shrugs-. I blame Facebook for that one. Anywho, finally it was my term to discuss my story and answer any questions. I can't remember any of the questions but one.

This guy I'd gone to school with since grade 5/6 asked "I have a question about Mia. Now, clearly she's a bitch but how'd you make her likable?" To which I said "Thanks for finding my peeve. Just because a character is strong doesn't make her a bitch." And then I woke up and I went "Who's Mia? And why is she tough?" because clearly it's important if the two things stand out right? And I remembered Mia.

I've been rolling the name around in my head trying to figure out this girl. My thought process went like this "Mia? That's Missing In Action." And...well. As if that hasn't opened a can of worms in my head now. After I finish the current w.i.p., I may be getting back to the zodiac bad asses I started with. Hm. Dreams. Nothing but trouble.

It's A New Year

Well it's 2008 and my goal to have something finished by the new year hasn't quite happened yet. I'm not stressed about it...yet. Nice word "yet". I do plan on finishing the work in progress, after I delete the latest crap I wrote. It's what sent me to the wall. It's been awhile since I had any writing goals at all hence me being rather lenient on the whole "finish in the new year." The new year's not gone yet!

San Francisco conference is not going to happen. At all. There's a reason for that: I'm spending the money on a trip elsewhere. I can't even feel guilty about that. I guess I still haven't recovered from New York '04 when I was surrounded by 2000 other romance writers...all who wanted my job. I'm not much on people so to be surrounded by that many people at once was a little overwhelming. I'm not keen to repeat the experience if I'm honest.

I suppose in the end attending a conference isn't that high on my priority list. Finishing the freaking manuscript is.