10/10/2004
Getting a balance...
I'm writing this from a prone position....
Actually, no I'm not, but I'd like to be...
Having just super-polished my latest ms, which was:
a) for new ed' whom I not only admire tremendously, but really really like, and so wanted to do my best for,
and
b) was asked to do a slightly different slant on the book this time, which took a little more brewing in my mind before I started pounding the keyboard...
Result- I spent a long long time writing, and very little time doing anything else- even sleeping.
If someone has the answer to achieving balance in the writer's life I would love to hear from them...
And what am I doing today, Sunday?
a) Tidying my office... like every other writer, by the time I finish I book I am almost invisible beneath a mound of papers, discarded scenes that might come in useful 'one day', research material various, pictures of yummy alpha to spur me on, objects that ring chords in my head (heroine's head) etc etc etc
b) Catching up with another project I am way behind on
c) Finding part finished ms in amongst tip, and wondering whether to change setting of said ms when I eventually find it (please let me find it) before finishing it in time for Dec 1
d) Cooking Sunday lunch and spending time with those I love... plus laundry, beds etc etc
e) Sitting down and reading? No. Relaxing? No. Taking a siesta? No. Planning a holiday? No. (what is one of those, by the way)
Would I change any of this? NO NO NO.
We can rest when we fall off the twig, right girls?
Love to you all, and happy, happy reading!
Susan
PS... Here's your music for today- it's what I'm listening to right now- And if this doesn't put a smile on your face, I'm a monkey's uncle... (OK, OK- so I love bananas, what of it?)
The late, the great.... Ray Charles... Love you, honey! Yum yum yummy
Actually, no I'm not, but I'd like to be...
Having just super-polished my latest ms, which was:
a) for new ed' whom I not only admire tremendously, but really really like, and so wanted to do my best for,
and
b) was asked to do a slightly different slant on the book this time, which took a little more brewing in my mind before I started pounding the keyboard...
Result- I spent a long long time writing, and very little time doing anything else- even sleeping.
If someone has the answer to achieving balance in the writer's life I would love to hear from them...
And what am I doing today, Sunday?
a) Tidying my office... like every other writer, by the time I finish I book I am almost invisible beneath a mound of papers, discarded scenes that might come in useful 'one day', research material various, pictures of yummy alpha to spur me on, objects that ring chords in my head (heroine's head) etc etc etc
b) Catching up with another project I am way behind on
c) Finding part finished ms in amongst tip, and wondering whether to change setting of said ms when I eventually find it (please let me find it) before finishing it in time for Dec 1
d) Cooking Sunday lunch and spending time with those I love... plus laundry, beds etc etc
e) Sitting down and reading? No. Relaxing? No. Taking a siesta? No. Planning a holiday? No. (what is one of those, by the way)
Would I change any of this? NO NO NO.
We can rest when we fall off the twig, right girls?
Love to you all, and happy, happy reading!
Susan
PS... Here's your music for today- it's what I'm listening to right now- And if this doesn't put a smile on your face, I'm a monkey's uncle... (OK, OK- so I love bananas, what of it?)
The late, the great.... Ray Charles... Love you, honey! Yum yum yummy
