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Katie Ruggle | Five Ways I Pretend I’m Not Procrastinating When I Should Be Writing:

June 15, 2016
  1. Research! For research purposes, I type “best fuel to use in an improvised explosive” into the browser search bar. Two hours later, I’ve read so, so many interesting things, but I still haven’t written the scene with the homemade bomb in it.
  2. Promo. Sigh. I start down the slippery social-media slope with the best intentions of spending five minutes (max!) updating my author stuff. Next thing I know, I’m blinking gritty eyes at the screen, trying to figure out what happened to the past three days. Darn you, Facebook—you and your time-sucking ways. How can I not watch the video of the cop rescuing the ducks trying to cross the Interstate? How??
  3. Conference Call. I adore my editor. When we need to have an occasional chat over the phone, I don’t mind at all. We start with the issue at hand and usually find a solution in short order. Feeling smug, I say something like, “Now that we’ve solved that, I’d better get back to writing. Oh, wait! Before you go, what did you think about that revision on [whatever book I’m editing at the time]?” With that, our neat, tidy and short call goes off the rails. Pretty soon, we’re in the middle of brainstorming an alternate ending, and I’m suggesting something insane. For example, at one point during one of these calls, I actually said the words, “How about we just burn the whole place down?” Luckily, one of the many things my editor is good at is reining in my crazier ideas.
  4. Life and Stuff. The chickens need to be fed. The dogs need to be fed. The cats need to be fed. The lawn needs to be mowed (and mowed and mowed). I need to go to the bakery (my day (night) job) and feed the masses. The house has reached the point where it either must be cleaned or burned to the ground. The garden needs to be planted/watered/weeded/harvested/processed. Sleep. I need sleep. There’s so much to do that’s not writing.
  5. Reading (Other People’s Books). I must resist the lure of this new book. Maybe I’ll just read a few pages. Or, you know, the entire thing.

About FAN THE FLAMES

Fan The Flames

In the remote Rocky Mountains, lives depend on the Search & Rescue brotherhood. But in a place this far off the map, trust is hard to come by and secrets can be murder…

As a Motorcycle Club member and firefighter, Ian Walsh is used to riding the line between the good guys and the bad. He may owe the Club his life, but his heart rests with his fire station brothers…and with the girl he’s loved since they were kids, Rory Sorenson. Ian would do anything for Rory. He’d die for her. Kill for her. Defend her to his last breath-and he may just have to.

Every con in the Rockies knows Rory is the go-to girl for less-than-legal firearms, and for the past few years, she’s managed to keep the peace between dangerous factions by remaining strictly neutral. But when she defends herself against a brutal attack, Rory finds herself catapulted into the center of a Motorcycle Club war-with only Ian standing between her and a threat greater than either of them could have imagined.

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About Katie Ruggle

Katie Ruggle

When she’s not writing, Katie Ruggle rides horses, shoots guns, and travels to warm places where she can SCUBA dive. Graduating from the Police Academy, Katie received her ice-rescue certification and can attest that the reservoirs in the Colorado mountains really are that cold. While she still misses her off-grid, solar- and wind-powered house in the Rocky Mountains, she now lives in Rochester, Minnesota near her family.

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