Have you ever been so close to finishing your WIP that you can taste it, only to have one thing after another crop up, dragging out those lovely two words “The End” until you feel as if you want to scream? Thats kind of where I am right now. Yesterday I thought I was close. I thought I would finish the story, look it over, and send it off to my editor before I went to bed.
I guess I wasnt as close as I thought. Honestly its my characters fault. I had a rough outline of where they were going, and they took me somewhere else. This has been happening throughout this entire process. So I ended up writing 8k last night, staying up until 3 in the morning, and realizing I still have about 6k left of story {unless they decide to join the circus or go flying off to mars-who knows with this group of characters}.
And then there are the interruptions. I love people and I love visiting, but right now I am not up for coherent conversation. I keep wondering if Linnea will survive the sacrifice she needs to make for her daughter, if one of my Fianna will die in their battle with the Horde and Sauros, and what the heck did my bad guy do to Sheridan {the heroine in my next story} when he kidnapped her that has her so messed up? So when my sister wants to come in and talk, or my husband wants to know what I want for dinner, I usually end up rambling to them about the story.
Do any of you have any experience with this? Getting so wrapped up in the world your creating that its hard to come out of it again and focus on your life? Cross your fingers that I can finish this today. Then I can take a day or two off before I start on Book Three of the series. 
July 24th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
I woke up dreaming about my story today. Then, once I had my Diet Pepsi and sat down to capture it in pixels it was gone, gone, gone.
good thing I still have my original outline. If I had typed my dream, it probably wouldn’t have even made sense.
When I’m working, I can’t give anyone the time of day. There’s these huge lapses of silence. They keep talking and I’m thinking plot points and whether or not Sue Ellen should die…she’s such a witch, it’s tempting, but I don’t know if I dislike her character THAT much…
July 24th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Omg I did too Ericka! Except it was a weird weird dream and not leaving my head lol. And definitely NOT going in the book lol!
RG, I’m so wrapped up in this current revision, I’m barely coming up for air. I’d guess a lot of us do that.
July 24th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Its good to know I’m not alone. And yeah-I dream about my stories too.
July 24th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
I do have that problem when people call me, but I’m lucky enough to live alone…so most people expect me to be a leetle bit on the eccentric side.
July 24th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Yeah but Crys-you are also blessed with superhuman multi-tasking abilities. Which I totally envy!
July 25th, 2007 at 7:55 am
This happens, but often I can’t sit down and drown in it. THAT’S my frustration.
You go, girl. You are KICKING ASS!
July 25th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
I dream about my stories all the time. And yes characters can take over and make things go on and on and on…
I deal with my kids interrupting me all day. Sometimes I tell them to bug off. Most of the time I just deal with the interruptions and I hope I can get back into the flow later…