28 April 2010

Waiting...

...truly, it is the most soul-destroying of times.

Although the manuscript is safely proof-read and in the hands of the publishers, it is not yet printed, and this means a daily checking of mail and a developing tic.

In other news, research is finished for the third book of the Herrick Quartet, and well under way for the fourth, which is a source of some surprise given the number of other projects that have been undertaken in the past three months - it is essential to while away those tedious hours of longing with something constructive, and a new modern-day idea seemed the solution.

Not so much a solution, it turned out, as a new addiction, and a desperate need for the thirty-six hour day so that writing might be done continuously with no need to find the hours for sleep and food.

The characters which inhabit the Herrick Quartet have of course taken this opportunity to refuel their persistent and almost admirable ability to find themselves in scalding hot water emotionally and physically, and drive on the story with most unloving whips and accusations of neglect (wholly unfounded!)

And now, back to checking the mail....