NaNoWrapUp

We had our "thank god it's over" party last night and I stayed until 1 a.m. Good times.

Most of the people seem to be interested in starting up a writing group that meets weekly or every other week, which is good. They may not be erotica writers, but any help I can get is good at this point. Excerpts were read, and I enjoyed hearing everyone's work. Lots of fantasy and sci-fi, and few of us take ourselves too seriously, very important.

*Still* working on my story for AQ, it is fun to write but I keep trying to rush it, which is running me up against walls. Need to sloooooooow doooooooooooown.

I'm busy reading 8000 different writer blogs and trying to gather information, get to know people out there and basically sponge as much knowledge as possible from those that have been successful before me.

Lastly, I figure that I am totally justified in buying many titles from Ellora's Cave and other publishers--gotta know the market after all! So, my latest indulgence was Jan Springer's A Hero Needed. I liked it, super sexy characters. I hadn't read her other Hero books, so when I was halfway through and all of a sudden there were space ships and self-lubricating butt plugs I got a bit of a shock. "Hey," I realized, "this is set in the future!" Duh, Amelia. One thing I notice in a LOT of the romantica I read is the 'deus ex machina' quality--self-lubricating butt plugs, fantastically rich characters, conveniently placed beds, etc. I love to see how writers can remove common difficulties by simply creating some totally over the top solution. Self-lubricating butt plugs--I WISH! Hee hee.