Monday, or A Day's Work

Woke up at 8 -- wow, I slept in! -- and felt only minor aftereffects of the previous night's celebrations. I then got to prove myself a real New Yorker by having to get up and move the car for alternate side of the street parking. I have to do this twice a week, which really isn't much of a hardship, but still makes me thankful that we have found Darcy a nice retirement home back in Connecticut, where 0eris0 will take good care of him, and spare him sitting unused for days and weeks on end, which is no fate for a performance vehicle.

Then I reworked a proposal, took posession of a new freelance project, broke down a few more boxes, brainstormed with another writer on her project, and made a salad so my fridge didn't seem so empty. Then I dealt with some correspondence, and came up with a novella proposal for another possible project.

Oh, and I took a nap in there somwhere. The felines insisted.

It's good to have the writer-brain back in lead. I missed working, a lot. Like most of us in the arts, it's not just what I do -- it's what I am.

Of course, the home-stuff isn't finished yet. Next up: figuring out where the artwork goes. Oh, and arranging a painting party date. Volunteers, step forward and state your availability!

Still, at the end of the day, I can look out from my desk and see the shape of my home forming, and I am content.

OMG the FUNNY!

from an article (via jaylake) on Dan Brown's long-awaited follow-up to The Da Vinci Code:

"As far as we are concerned he’s at work on a sequel and it will be published and we will be publishing it," Barrow said. "There is never any clause from publisher to a novelist that they have to deliver at a certain time. We would not impose such a thing on a contract." [emphasis mine]

*does best drop-jaw and howls for da (painful) funny*


(in case anyone here has missed this essential fact of writing-life: deadlines are the things publishers put into contracts at which point the book is due. Yes, even for Dan Brown and JK Rowling, etc. They may be politely overlooked, but they ARE in the contract. Fifteen years on the editorial side, and I never once heard of a contract being drawn up without a delivery date.)