The Trouble With Demons -- Off to a fine start

Chapter 1 of The Trouble With Demons is well underway and all is as it should be -- Raine and Phaelan are in really big trouble; they just don't know it yet. Next they find out just how deep the doo-doo is that they've stepped in. ; ) Oh, and Raine runs into a man from her past; problem is that he didn't stay there. I'm doing the same thing I try to do with each of my chapters: start with a hook (preferably a snarky one) and end with a cliffhanger.

Yesterday must have been "start that big project" day. After I'd finished writing for the night, I visited a couple of author friends' blogs. Anya Bast started Witch Heart yesterday (the third in her new series), and Diana Pharaoh Francis is diving into the revisions for her latest book.

For the duration of my first draft (which will take me into January/February) I'll be writing at least two chapters a week. So my social life is officially in lockdown mode. I'm not going to be getting out much (not that I was ever a social butterfly before).

Derek and I have an agreement for this book (after the experience of Armed & Magical.) I will take a night off every other week for a little "me & we" time. No writing. Though note-taking is allowed (because that's unstoppable). As a writer, if something comes to me and I didn't write it down, my head would probably explode. For A&M, I had no life outside of writing that book. This time I'm going with a healthier approach. ; ) Take a little break, hang on to those vestiges of humanity that tend to fall by the wayside the moment a hyper-focused writer like myself gets a deadline and sits down at the computer. So tonight Derek and I are going to the mall, get some needed shopping done, get a Cinnabon, and go to B&N. Though one of our personal favorite break nights is to get a bottle of wine, a pair of glasses, and go get in the Jacuzzi. Now that's what I call a break. : )