Moonlight Encounters

You scream your fool head off and swear off buying another thing from ebay as long as you live!!! Then you suck it up, and transfer ALL your writing material to the desktop, which is the most reliable form of electronic's - at least in my house! Then you burn a copy of your work onto a CD every evening (because the flash-drive you bought from ebay sucks too!!).

You set down to work on your MS with a screaming two year old, alternating between singing (and expecting an applaud after every verse) to hopping up and down on your chair saying "Mommy" and a grown child of 35 pestering the ten year old and the two year old, where they are competing for loudest child awards.

The whole time you keep chanting over and over in your head, "I can do this. I can write. I can do this. I can write." Only to stare at the screen in front of you and realize.... Hey, you were right... you can do this. Never mind the word count is less the 75% lower then your normal range. It's still writing. And, fingers crossed here, it gets easier as you adept to writing in the same room as everyone else.

Oh, yeah... and said desktop has internet access, tempting you further from your word count goal. You must be strong, avoid temptations and distractions, and push out those words, even if it's only a few compared to your typical amount.