Wednesday evening I'm scheduled to do an on-line chat at NovelTalk. The chat is supposed to revolve around my newest release LASSO THE MOON. This morning I had a sobering thought. What if someone stumps me with a question about my own story?  

You might wonder how that could be possible. How could I not know something about a story I slaved over--in this instance--for years? Well, first of all, aspects of the story changed over many, many rewrites.  Also, within the six month span of meeting the LTM deadline and its official relase, I wrote another novel. I lived and breathed a new time period, new characters, and a new plot. It's not that I have no connection to past stories and characters, it's just that they are less vivid. Wait, that's not true. The characters, all of my characters from all of my stories, are vivid--as is their motivation. Details... that's where it gets fuzzy.

So today I started reading LASSO THE MOON. As I'm reading, I'm noting anything that might be pertinant to ROMANCING THE WEST. RTW stars recurring characters from LTM. You can bet that by the time I start ROMANCING THE WEST (estimated start time mid-March) I will have forgotten details from LTM because between now and then I'm writing a proposal for a different book starring recurring characters from THE CHAMELEON CHRONICLES--Part I. 

Did you follow any of that?

A few years ago a friend noted of a mutual multi-published, extremely prolific friend, that said unnamed author forgot the key aspects of the story she just wrote almost as soon as she started the next project.  I wondered... How is that possible?  Now I know. I think this happens more for people who write mutiple projects in a year. Your brain, okay, MY brain can only cling to so much info.  Anyone else experiencing similar memory glitches??