So I’m taking a (really) short vacation from work this week so that I can make an attempt to focus on Book 2 and try and get more of it written before NaNoWriMo starts up. I figured I’d also take the time to look at my notes for Book 4 since that’s the one I’ll be writing come November. I pulled up the document for it, and I suddenly remembered why I hate titles: I suck at them. Currently, the working title is Two of Hearts Beats the King of Clubs or something lame like that. I don’t know that the wording is entirely correct, but you get the gist of the lameness of it. I really stink at titles, a lament I know I’ve gone on about at length before. I guess part of my prep time will be spent trying to think of something better than that mess!

Book 2 is coming along still. I don’t add nearly as much every day to the manuscript as I’d like, however. When I get home, I usually end up reading comics on-line or crocheting, so what I do write tends to be at work in the break room during my half hour lunch. Even then, I often don’t get much written due to conversations with the other librarians. Maybe this weekend I’ll have inspiration and won’t have the arthritis impeding my ability to write. I might also try to stay away from the computer by literally distancing myself from it. If I leave it in the other room, maybe I’ll be less compelled to just sit and read comics all day long. It’s a thought.

I still have a quarter of Book 2 left to write, I think. I have an outline that I’m more or less following in order to get me through the last chapters, but the thing is that I don’t know how long it’ll take to write the scenes I have mapped out in my head. The current scene wasn’t supposed to take all that long but became more involved when I realized I needed the additional details in order for the whole of the incident to make sense. I’m already chopping out large swaths from the final chapters to keep this book from being twice the size of the other one, though it has been pointed out to me that the Harry Potter books went from average sized to huge in a relatively short span of the series. Of course, the majority of Book 2 hasn’t even been typed up yet and is still just my scribbles in a couple notebooks, so I don’t have a very clear idea as to just how long it’ll be once on the computer. That’s something else I might do this weekend: type up more of Book 2 just so I can get back into the swing of excessive amounts of time at the keyboard. It’s a thought.

We’re out of ice cream, so rather than have dessert, I think I’ll grab my trusty blue fountain pen and second notebook to Book 2 and go curl up on the futon or loveseat for a while. I took a nap this afternoon after work in an attempt to get rid of a sinus headache (damned weather) so I could probably stay up a little later tonight were it not for the headache still lurking around the back of my head. We’ll see. I’d really just like to get through another couple chapters so I can feel I’m making headway at all. There are quite a number of people anxious to see this second book published. I don’t want to disappoint my half dozen fans. 😉

Oh, and a silly side note: I checked my own book out from the library yesterday. I didn’t have my notebooks with me and needed something to do over my lunch break because I was back in the lounge by myself. I figured I could read, but I didn’t want to read anything heavy or new, so I grabbed the most mindless thing I could think of: my own novel. No one commented on me sitting there reading my own book or carrying it home, but Ian noticed it when I got it inside. I was reading some of it today at lunch and they noticed that I was reading Two Minds Are Better Than One, and I was asked if I was reading it for inspiration for the current book. I told them I wanted to read something familiar. What’s more familiar than something I’ve written? It’s interesting holding the book in my hands and reading it that way instead of reading it from a notebook or computer screen. I have to say I like the feeling.