Time for more energy

Okay, so I put together all the pieces of the first reading, and I gave it another listen. No, no, no -- it needs more energy. I sound like I'm on my last legs, and I'm lucky to be breathing. This will never do. Who in heaven's name is going to want to buy a book that starts out being so ... depleted? I've got to start on an up note, all my exhaustion of that time be damned!

I've heard it said that some authors are better writers than readers, and I'm sure it's true. But not for me. Why should I do an imitation of a worn-out, tattered-tweed-wearing artiste, who's laboring just to get through life as a writer? That's not who I am, that's no how I am.

Time to go back to the drawing board and spice things up a bit!

(And now that I don't have any more shopping to do, my schedule has opened wide up, so I can ;)