NEW NOVEL!

OK! So on my flight back to OC (Orange County), I got out my new netbook and managed to write over 3000 words in my new novel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was a 3 1/2 hour flight. When it flows, man oh man does it FLOW! Of course this is probably no comparison to my second novel's first draft, which I wrote and FINISHED entirely in TWO days, 25,000 words. Yeah, nothing's ever going to beat that. But this is still pretty exciting:)

I was inspired by a dream for my new (6th) novel that I had the night of January 2nd. I got up the next morning and was so overcome by inspiration, I felt like I was in my novel's world the entire day as I thought about it and as I wrote. It felt so magical. I was concerned that it has to do with vampires because--how am I going to sell a book about VAMPIRES in this over-saturated market? But I came to terms with the fact that you can't question those creative fireworks inside you. When this creation is starting and telling you to bring it to life, to deny it would be to deny the aliveness inside you. If this is what needs to come out of me right now, who am "I" to argue? It's not about "me"...creativity has a bigger voice from a bigger place that creates through us little humans.

Also, who am I to argue with the fact that the female vampire in my dream wanted to sing A Part of Your World from A Little Mermaid??

ANYWAYS, so I'm on my 1st draft of my 5th and 6th novels and 4th draft of my 4th novel. My goal is to complete the 4th novel this year. Besides these bursts of writing that seem to hit me, I feel like I'm a pretty slow writer in comparison with others. I hear about people writing a novel a year and I scream HOOOWWWW??? Actually I just think it, but that's because I'm polite, and DEFINITELY NOT crazy. Believe me, I have a piece of paper I printed out from the internet that tells me so. That's right, THE internet.

OK! Hope I gave you at least one laugh:) How long does it take you guys to write? Does anyone else get those bursts of writing and then can't seem to look at your novel for weeks?

I've totally stopped querying, by the way, because it makes me sad, hahaha. How do you all stay motivated to keep querying?