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And, that is how difficult it is to resist the impulse to go through the apartment top to bottom and CLEAN, scrubbing every single corner until it shines like the brightest star in the heavens.

But, there's a flip side advantage to that if you're like me. And, that is, physical work begats creative work and vice-versa, so it's like stoking the engine to create once the cleaning is done. Plus, a great work environment, full of clean energy makes for some great writing. At least it does for me. Great=lots of writing.

Yesterday, I didn't feel all that well, so I went to breakfast, edited lots, played video games for many hours, then went to the mall for sugar free chocolates and a soundtrack from Tower Records. Found some gifts for my sister along the way. Then, the evening was spent in typical Thursday fashion, running around, chauffering kids from one place to another until I got home and typed some edits in on Wildfire.

One of these days, I most post my word counts. I was too tired last night.

Today...sigh...today, a novel idea that sparked yesterday fell into COMPLETE place and I hand wrote a synopsis for it while at breakfast.

So, naturally, the creativity makes me want to clean when I get home. I've started going through closets, pulling out clothes we can't wear any more to take to Salvation Army. Must do it when kids are gone so they can't say they'll wear it again (when they haven't even looked at it in five years!).

After that, who knows?

Except that I typed in more edits on Wildfire this morning and must finish that. Must write a new synopsis for it, too, cause I decided to change the plot. Hence all the rewriting and adding new stuff. I don't think it'll hit the 85,000 projected word count, though. Maybe 80,000. Definitely a short book for me.

I'm really resisting the urge to start on the new novel. It's going to be a novel I totally fall in love with like Xanali, which turned into Out of the Darkness plus Xanali has been. I'm in love with the story already and it so ties together certain elements of my universe. I couldn't have asked for a more cohesive plot.

Perhaps I will content myself to plot point it while I'm working on Wildfire, then allow myself to tackle it when it's so ready that the words will leap from my brain and onto the paper...er, computer screen...or, should that be, keyboard?

I need a big project for April, anyway. Maybe then. :)

Back to cleaning. Want to get lots done today.