First things first. The lovely Clare Lydon interviewed me for the Lesbian Book Club podcast, and you can listen to our chat here >>

The radio show we recorded yesterday (it’s called The Sex Crystals) was really great fun. It ended up being more about lesbian sex than lesbian erotic literature (even though they made me read from one of my stories without telling me in advance!), so of course we talked about scissoring and such. 😉 I’ll post the link once it’s been aired (in about 2 to 3 weeks.)

Meanwhile, I’ve taken Release The Stars over the halfway mark. Although I ‘only’ wrote 5000 words today, of which the bulk made up a very long and emotional bedroom scene, which left me quite empty and reluctant to continue after. (It was awesome to write, though!)

During our lunch break, the wife and I went to have a second look at the new Ladylit office. As of June 1st, we’ll be moving into a new space on the island, thus reducing our commute with 1,5 hours (one way!) (Yes, life is swell.) I’m not entirely sure where I’ll find the time to move, what with still having 1,5 novels left to write in the 5 weeks before we leave for Belgium, but I’m sure we’ll make it work somehow (by ‘we’, I mean my wife, who is awesome and gorgeous) (and almost 40.) 😉

Also, yesterday I sent Once In A Lifetime to my editor (the multi-talented Cheyenne Blue), so that’s still on track. Yay! (I’m so excited about this book. It’s my new favorite.) 😉

I will be working this weekend (not too much, though), but my next writing day is only scheduled for Tuesday. See you then!

The segment where I wrote 1010 words in half an hour is where things REALLY heated up…

Would it be rude to just upload a picture of ‘my numbers’? 😉 I woke up at 4 this morning, completely obsessed with this story. I stayed in bed brainstorming for another hour, trying to remember my ideas by attaching them to easy to remember words or abbreviations like SMS (which stood for strap-on, manly and self-sabotage.) 😉 I finally did get up around 5 and made some notes on my computer in order not to forget.

I’m very much a morning person, but I draw the line at getting up before the frogs stop croaking and the birds start whistling, so after making my notes I went back to bed to hug my wife (which basically equals waking her up.) (But because of this interview at Women & Words we all know she wants to be ‘fit for forty’ so she had to get up anyway to catch an early ferry and hit the gym before work!) 😉

I ended up having an excellent writing day, producing 7000 new words, bringing my manuscript to 21.000 words. (This time last week it was at 0 words, so I’m very happy with how this first draft is progressing.)

Tomorrow is another full writing day, so I’ll check back in. I have to say, though… when I came up with this plan to write a blog post at the end of every writing day, I did not know I was going to totally fry my brain with 7000 words days!

Peace out!

Maybe tomorrow I’ll tell you about what I do during my breaks… 😉