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Time Travel for Fun and Profit

Well….preferably profit.

I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately, as the faster I work the more behinder I get. My goal for this year was to finish all the open files/books/novellas I’ve started. Didn’t happen. Here we are at the end of 2007 and I’ve got exactly 2 books marked off my long list of 17. And guess what? Every week sees me adding to the list of ideas and sequels I’m compiling. Ughhhhh….

My imagination is a fertile place. I never seem able to turn it off and just concentrate on one project at a time. Sometimes I have to pull out the character sheets and start writing up new ones that pop into my head just so I can purge those ideas to continue on with the one I’m supposed to be working on. It’s not easy being me. I’m thinking the only thing that would help my creative over-abundance is to acquire the ability to time travel.

Why are you looking at me like that? I’m totally serious here. If I could time travel, I would be able to work on mulitple projects at a time…much as I do now, but with the added bonus of actually working on them at precisely the same time. See, I could finish one book, then go back to the same point in time and finish the next and the next…. Kind of like a Ground Hog’s Day for writers.

Imagine the increase in productivity? You could conceive an idea, research, outline, do everything from the rough to the final draft in the same day. Awesome!

My critique partners already marvel at my prolificness. Strange how I want increase my output even more. Can you imagine what I could do with time travel?

All right. That’s it… no more talk. I’m going for it.

If you see a brilliant flash of light over the Mid-Atlantic states you’ll know it’s me breaking the light barrier.

Ooooooo…I think I’ve just come up with a new tagline…. Kat, writing at the speed of light.

-Kat