Thursday, July 1, 2010

Obsession

You know you are obsessed with your book when...

... while pondering your book during morning "make the lunches and run around collecting stuff" time, you forget to eat breakfast.

... while pondering your book during a write-in with a friend at the library, the solution to your plot problem hits you and, before you know what you are doing, you holler "I got it!" and leap from your chair.

... while pondering your book during a run, you become so absorbed that you forget to watch your step and fly to the pavement in the middle of the street, battering your shoulder and scraping your knees and palms. Yet all you can think as you continue the run (with blood dripping down your leg) is "She could totally wipe-out like that in Chapter 8."

... even in the face of all this, you still find yourself happily pondering your book during dinner...and bedtime...and during the second half of the Brazil-Chile World Cup game...

3 comments:

Corey Schwartz said...

Oh, that's the best feeling in the world. Being totally enamored with a WIP!

Lisa Gail Green said...

Totally!! Plus at 4 in the morning when you wake up and can't go back to sleep...

cath c said...

i know i'm obsessed when i've just dropped off my boys in DE for a month away, dh and i have stopped by an alternate office of his company, and we're standing in the 'shop' listening to aluminum being cut with a bandsaw, when i look up behind dh's head to a random poster of constellations and start replotting my made up comet's path through the constellations on the dirty old shop poster!

ain't life as a writer grand?!