The Importance of Being Lusha

So, I actually finished a short last week. First thing I've finished since May, I was in a really nasty little mental box and the trip to Sanibel Island was just what the doctor would have ordered if he wasn't so busy wrestling with my HMO.

While on Sanibel, I had an entire week to pamper my muse, to shift my priorities back where they needed to be. Just like Maree's post last week, I was so miserable with the writing and my overall lack of progress, I was eyeballing the blue Wal-Mart vests. Hey if I'm going to be unhappy I might as well be compensated for it, right?

So during our Sanibel trip we decided to work on a group anthology, each contributor to write a twenty thousand word story that ties in. Seeing as how I literally hate all the open projects on my P.C. I figured I better start something I wanted to write, something I could finish before National Novel Writing Month starts in Nov.

Two chapters in, my fab critique partner sends me an email to the effect of "Who are you and what have you done with Jenn?" It wasn't that she didn't recognize my voice. I'd turned up the heat to OMG explicit levels.

Which is why I finally have an pen name, Lusha Lovelace. It hit me in the middle of the night like a freight train. She's more than just a pseudonym though, she's a way of life, an attitude with attitude. There is NOTHING Lusha won't do because Lusha is all about the moment, the inner hedonist.

Lusha doesn't fret about cleaning the house, scrubbing toilets, running the kids to every activity on he planet. Lusha doesn't edit, or worry about what will need to be edited when. Lusha creates, then sits in bubble baths with a giant bottle of Rosa Regale at the ready while someone else does the grunt work. She is the good-time girl, the anti Laundry Hag. No one would dare take Lusha for granted, they are lucky to be in the same room with her.

Lusha knocked that twenty K story out of the park in little less than two weeks. Then wrote another short two days later.

Essentially, Lusha is a talented, selfish bitch. And God help me, I love being Lusha.

Good thing she'll have me.

You can follow Lusha on twitter.

http://twitter.com/LushaLovelace


Oh and just FYI, my medieval times space opera, Stellar Timing, is a finalist in the On the Far Side contest!