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Cindi was back at work yesterday. She said the dr. thinks it's some kind of syndrome, but that it's more nuisance than life threatening. I'm kinda leaning toward Natalie's diagnosis, though, the diabetes. She was borderline gestational diabetes with her last baby, but she doesn't have family history. We'll know more next week.

I was roaming around Amazon yesterday looking for friends' books and I noticed Lani Diane Rich (who I don't know, but I'm a fan) has a TON of books I haven't read. I know she hasn't been published that long and I started getting this squeezing in my chest and thought, "I should be writing faster." I know, I'm not supposed to compare myself to other writers, but dang, I thought I'd have both Vanished and Wayback done and submitted by now. Now I'm looking at the end of Spring Break, in three weeks (for Wayback, at least. Vanished should be done this week.) I know I can't write any faster. I wake up at 4-4:30 every morning (except this week) and work at least an hour, then write in the evening, too. I don't watch as much TV as I did, I'm slower with movies and reading, and I don't want to give that up entirely.

So how do you STOP yourself from having the expectations of being like someone else?

I figured out my connection between the conflicts in my Wayback story....that he has a "don't fence me in" attitude because he was fenced in by his stage parents and later his manager when he was younger, and she's still fenced in.

And I figured out that I don't have the chemistry between them because she's acting too much the victim. Must make her funnier.