Thinking About...This and That: I Hate Mornings

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I hate mornings! I hate the routine around here. My wife Liz gargling in the bathroom irritates me more than anything. Well, maybe not more than hearing Charnel whining about how she hasn’t anything decent to wear. Cory griping about taking out the dog really bums me out since we only have a dog because he begged and begged.

God, I hate mornings. Working at home doesn’t help. At least if I had a job I could get up earlier than the rest of them, grab a cup of coffee, and take off for the office, or the store, or plant, or wherever I would be employed. But no, I have to be a writer. I know, I know, I could have an office somewhere downtown, or write in a coffee shop, like some of my writing buddies, but I’m basically lazy. That’s why I’m a writer to begin with.

Why am I lamenting like this instead of getting on with my current novel? Getting the juices flowing? I don’t think so. Yesterday, I surfed the web to avoid this damned writer’s block. God, I hate when this happens in the middle of a novel. I don’t know where the hell the plot is going, or why my main character decided to stop all action. I probably should have stopped writing the damn thing and started a new blockbuster. Yeah, that’s what I should do, but I hate to waste all those words, especially since they didn’t come easy this time.

That’s the problem with being a worldwide, best-selling novelist. Millions of readers anticipating your next adventure thriller, to say nothing of all the publishing pros connected with your successes who are on your butt day and night about meeting a deadline. I'd like to see their sorry asses churn out two international best-sellers a year.

I’d better zip this and get back to the grindstone. I wonder if Cory remembered to walk Bullet this morning. I'd better take him out, just in case, and I know the bird feeder needs to be refilled. This is probably a good time to trim that hedge Liz has been after me to get done. Yeah, that’s what I’ve got to do. If I don’t get that dog out, and he has an accident, I will hear about it for a week.

Yeah, maybe when I’m walking Bullet my Muse will start working. Maybe the good ole Muse will find a way to get Bret Steele, the main character in all my novels, to get moving. Yeah. Good idea. Get away from this keyboard. Maybe mornings aren’t the best time to write. Maybe I should write at night. Maybe I should go find a job.

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