Hypergraphia: I have enjoyed a little stretch of writing over the past week. Not sure what it is that set me off, but it is nice. Last night after Mary went to sleep I was able to whip off about 4,700 words. Not bad for a few hours of writing.

I look at things like that and wish that I was a terrific writer and that I could do it full time. I get so frustrated with authors that I like who are so slow to turn out great new novels. Steven King once said that he was going to stop writing because he didn't have another original idea in his head (his last book at that time was just a little too much like one of his first). Well, I see that he has written Cellular, so either he got over that or someone gave him a new idea.

Then there are guys like Tom Clancy. What a great writer. But it is years between novels and he has stretched himself into some of his non-fiction works on the military and a couple of franchise series. I would think that his publisher could prop him up with a bunch of good ghost writers and let him spin the plot and turn out some new things from time to time.

As for me, I am still a scratch writer, unpublished and mostly unread. I have committed to the kids that I will finish one of the books this year, although they are thinking that I am working on an older work that I started a couple of years ago. But, at my present rate of writing I might get this one done in a few weeks and still have plenty of time to finish Time Stone.