What I should be doing.

Here is a list of things I should be doing right now:

1.) Finishing the second chapter of my newest book.

What I am doing right now:

1.) Blogging.
2.) Poking my husband while he's trying to go to sleep.
3.) Eating another apple.
4.) Telling the kids to shut their mouths and go to sleep. Again.
5.) Checking my Facebook.
6.) Taking off my nail polish.
7.) Putting on new nail polish.
8.) Googling people I met at ECRW.
9.) Googling myself. (not much to find there)
10.) Looking on Netflix to see what movie's I can watch instantly.
11.) Giggling at the "one liners" in the movie Wild Hogs that only I enjoy.
12.) Texting my B.F.F. annoying things to piss her off.
13.) Avoiding the cheese drawer.
14.) Visiting the cheese drawer.
15.) Looking at pictures of the town in my story setting online.
16.) Looking at pictures of Gerard Butler online. (Could you resist? Didn't think so.)
17.) Reading tid bits out of Jane Porter's book.
18.) Popping zits.
19.) Going back to that damn cheese drawer.
20.) Replaying conversations in my head, and coming up with wittier and more intelligent responses.
21.) Checking my email. 16 times. Maybe more.
22.) Drinking yet another Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi.
23.) Contemplating shaving my legs.
24.) Deciding against shaving my legs.
25.) Google-mapping the houses of people I know. (Sorry. I know it's creepy. But you do it, too.)

I really should get my butt back to work. I need to keep moving forward. I entered the Cherry Adair's "Finish The Damn Book" Challenge, and I have one year, LESS ACTUALLY, to finish a completely new book. I can do it. I know I can do it. But....

I need to light a fire underneath my azz.

It isn't that I don't have the ideas. Because I do. Believe me, my life has offered me more than enough examples for a good contemprary romance lately. I am surrounded by drama. That's what makes me a decent romance writer, I guess. It's good to know that I've put my melodramatic tendencies to good use. But I need to get my junk back in gear, if I am going to finish the challenge in time. I don't expect to win, per say, (though I haven't completely ruled that out.) but I do want to finish. I want to be on that stage next October, getting a hug from the Cherry Adair. I want to complete the challenge simply because I set out to do it. And I can. I really CAN.

Ok, so I am getting back to work. This is it. Period.

......does anybody else smell cheese?

FOCUS.

Brooke Moss.