People use that phrase all the time when they need your help or want you to do something for them. Lately, in general, I don’t have a minute. But I never tell people, “No, I don’t”. It’s the same when they say, “Are you busy?” C’mon, I’m at work, of course I’m busy! And at home, it’s the same. I have a deadline so of course I’m busy.

Ever wonder how much more you’d get done if you could have those minutes back? One day, as little private test, I tried to keep track of the minutes I’d spent elsewhere at someone else’s behest. It ended up being about a quarter of my work day.  Of course, now, several years after I did that original little test, we call the spending of those minutes customer service. It certainly makes it easier to not look at them as time wasted or lost when you give those minutes the proper label.

Now, I did happen to lose some minutes to drama last week. Thankfully, it was only minutes. Once I realized what was in my Inbox, I shufffled it all aside and didn’t read it. I mean, c’mon, why would you read something you know is meant to irritate you? On top of that, people who indulge in that sort of drama are just waiting for you to respond. Ignoring it is the only logical choice.  You know it’s gonna bug you, know it’s not going to say anything meaningful, and know it will suck up your minutes. If you just set it all aside (you don’t delete it in case it comes back to haunt you in some fashion) you can get back to the stuff that really needs to be read.

At the moment, I’m in a race against time with a cantankerous muse who wants to veg. The really odd thing about it is that I can write, albeit a lot slower than my usual speed of light.  Those of you who know how quickly I can write when I write sex scenes are already laughing. Yes, I’ve stalled on writing sex. Every scene I’ve started that has sex in it, is not finished. The scenes that aren’t sex are flowing, but slower, like they usually do. So  where  I thought I’d be finished this weekend with Fire Season… I have  10-12K to go.

It feels weird not to be able to pull the sex scenes off in a flash. I’m not sure what happened to my muse. I thought he was okay with me writing M/M sex. And what sex I have written so far is quite hot. So I’m not exactly sure why the sex writing has slowed to a crawl. I don’t think I wanna analyze it too closely either because I have another M/M novella to write after this one.

A quick note about Tales of the Darkworld’s website, then I’ll give you a Marcus and get outta here. I did a little more work on the site this weekend. Basically, I started writing the page that explains the world of the Darkworld. My world building skills were exercised a bit because of the details I’ve been getting to in Fire Season and because The Pixie Prince is coming soon. If you were curious about the Darkworld, check out the site and read about the creatures and the Five Realms that make up this universe.

Ahhh, time for a Marcus. My favorite part of the week! I like the expression on his face here. Not sure why, just do. *sigh* I guess I can go to work now that I’ve had a Marcus…

Have a great Monday!