Question for the Authors...

Hi all! I really should be writing right now, but I am having blogging withdrawls. (Only took 8 months or so). Anyway, in order to avoid guilt for abandoning my literary progress, I shall strive to keep this fairly short. I just have a question I'd like to put to my fellow authors:

What, specifically, made you decide to become a writer? I'm curious to see what motivates others to lock themselves away from civilization, ditch hygiene, and talk to imaginary characters. (Oh, come on! You all know you do it!)

Share your stories by commenting; share your thoughts by commenting on the comments; share your wealth by wiring money into my account...oh, wait... just kidding, (unless, of course, you were actually going to wire me money. Then I was absolutely serious!)

Have a productive, word countful sort of day!

MIA...Literally!

So, MIA means Missing In Action, right? That is exactly what (or where) I've been...ACTION being the operative word. See, the reason I haven't been blogging, Tweeting, Facebooking, Goodreading, or any of those other wonderful internet based activities can be summed up in this statement: Hello, I'm L. Carroll and I'm an author with a writing problem. (They say admitting it is the first step.)

So, here's the issue: I'm currently working on not one...not two...but three...yeah, that's right, three new novels. Please don't ask what mental illness drove me to this brand of personal torture. I don't have an answer. Besides, I'm liable to burst into wholly unladylike hysterics if you do. At any rate, that is why I've been (hopefully) noticibly absent online. I'd like to say that I'll be back soon, but that would be a lie. In reality, I don't know when I'll return, or even if I'll survive this madness in the end. But don't be alarmed. 'Though they find my corpse staring, glassy-eyed, at the screen of my laptop and surrounded by empty Dr. Pepper bottles and Twinkie wrappers, 'twas done in the name of the books. THE NAME OF THE BOOKS, I SAY! (Wow, I guess I really do have a problem!)

Anywho, until we meet again, my friends, I just wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! (Also a Happy Ground Hog's Day, Valentine's Day, President's Day, St. Patty's Day, April Fool's, spring, summer, etc.) 

And now, I must away to the lair!