To be honest, there were no grand romantic gestures here in Casa Cameron, which I know may be unexpected for a romance writer. But neither of us were in the mood for such gestures, nor do we need them. Ramón and I are ridiculously affectionate all year round so we don’t need an official day for those kind of activities. Also, flowers need to be put out of range of the J Crew which is problematic, and we already had chocolates. *shrug*

So today pretty much consisted of working, changing out J.J.’s peed-upon bedding, fetching Thai for dinner, and generally relaxing. I did wind up churning out 1,210 words on Crystal Blade, which felt really good, and I now have a solid plotline of what should happen in the second half of the book.

In other writing news I’m picking at the outlines for High Tide (Olympic Cove Five) and To Love a Wild Swan (Hidden Empire Three). Mage of Fire (Two Thrones Five) is still simmering in my subconscious and with everything else going on I don’t want to poke at that quite yet. Once I have Crystal Blade done, however, I’m going to try an experiment and work on Crystal Reflection (Paladins of Crystal Three), Tide, and Swan in rotation. Since the stories are all so very different I’m hoping that I can stay fresh by shifting from book to book depending on my mood of the day.

And if it turns out that I’m just muddling along without getting ANYTHING done I’ll switch back to doing one book at a time. We’ll see.