Not Tonight, Honey, I Have A Deadline

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MyLot Exclusive #73 I was going to write about something else today. I had plans and everything. Big plans. Grand plans. Glorious plans. Then, everything changed. Someone made me aware of the fact that there's a t-shirt out there that says, "Not Tonight, Honey, I Have A Deadline." And just like the person who pointed it out to me, I, too, think it pretty much sums up what it's like to be a writer. Fiction or non, in any genre you can name, there are deadlines. There are even some other professions that have them. And all of them produce disappointed Significant Others due to the deadlines having to be met. Disappointment that can be easily avoided with a clear early warning via t-shirt that there will be no gymnastics tonight. Think about it. If you see your partner put on his or her...I assume it's a unisex thing now. It's been a long time since I've been in school but I heard that they started teaching girls how to read and write. If that's true, why can't they be writers?..."Not Tonight, Honey, I Have A Deadline," shirt first thing in the morning, you're not even going to bother getting in the mood and by bedtime, you'll just want to sleep. No fights. No arguments. No begging. No pleading. No frustration. Everyone wins. Except for the unholy demon that lives inside you who just wants endless sex all the time. So, OK, almost everyone wins. Of course, some of us like that unholy demon and don't want to see it disappointed and that forms the basis of my latest billion dollar idea, a line of designer shirts that say, "TELL YOUR PUBLISHER TO SHOVE THAT DEADLINE UP HIS/HER NOSE!" Now, everyone is happy. Except for the Publisher. And that's good enough for me. All that's left is for me to figure out what to do with another billion dollars. Don't worry, I'll think of something.