Blood, Sweat, Tears, and Some Words Too

My life is super stressful at the moment. I know, wah wah, poor me. But it's totally true. And it seems as if most people in my life are trying to make it more stressful, whether on purpose or not. It could, I suppose, just be that I am seeing the world through jerk-colored glasses. But, people in my life (who most likely don't read this blog because I know and like just about everyone who does read my blog), stop being jerks if indeed you are actually being jerks, ok?

Here's your excerpt from yesterday, on which I wrote like a mere 1200 words, but all were poured out with blood, sweat, and tears. Man, writing was easy at the beginning of the month. Stupid middles-of-books-that-are-hard-to-write. Anyway, excerpt:

Only then did Jude turn again to look at her. Somewhere in the back of his mind, he’d been hoping that this time when she looked at him he wouldn’t freeze in his shoes. His heart wouldn’t stop. His breath wouldn’t come quick. But when her big hazel eyes turned to look up at him and he saw the impish grin covering the fear and the gratitude and the apology and the host of other emotions swimming in her, he was helpless before her.

That was the big lurve-at-first-sight moment. Ok, I realize this is not a romance novel per se, but I can't write a book without a big lurve moment. So sue me. Also, I wrote it out of order because I know I need some more stuff before the big lurve moment, but I don't know exactly what. I'll figure it out.

Also, join me, minions. If you're doing NaNoWriMo and you're way freakin' behind like me, join me in 10k Friday. I may not make it all the way to 10k because I've got to do at least a leeettle shopping and also I have to cook, but I'm going to give it a good try. Maybe I can still finish by November 30!

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