It figures that, now that I finally have the writing jones again, which manifests itself through constant thinking about the book and its various problems (and deeply irritating bouts of insomnia, made worse by the fact that B has a cold and has been snoring like a bear all week), that I have a shitload of work to do of the paying variety and am so broke from the tornado repairs, etc. that I can't afford to turn anything down. The online writing course is over, which theoretically means I should have time to get back to the book and the stories I had to put off for the last three months, but instead I'm rewriting the accounting department writing website (work I requested when the U cut back my hours this semester), grading 10 eight-page taxation papers, and line-editing a 182-page YA horror novel. I'm not complaining, exactly, because I need the chump change and I'm grateful to have this kind of work instead of manning the drive-thru at McDonalds, which I've done in the past when things got bad. But still, all this work had to happen at the exact same moment that the book idea is starting to turn into something I can work with.
All last year I couldn't write a word, not a word. Not before the tornado hit. Not when I had set aside time to get the second book off the ground. Now I'm feeling like Virginia goddamn Woolf again, and I have to do everything else first.
Figures.
Isn't that the way it always goes?
Maybe you could get a Dictaphone. Now that everyone is walking and driving around with hands-free cell phones, it won't look that strange for you to be talking to yourself in public.
Posted by: Brendan | April 09, 2007 at 08:15 PM
I'm sorry about your dilemma. I hope it works itself out.
Did you hear about the neighborhood party on Saturday to acknowledge the anniversary of the tornado? if you need details, let me know and I'll get them to you.
Posted by: Churlita | April 10, 2007 at 12:42 PM
No, I didn't hear. What's the story?
Posted by: TLB | April 10, 2007 at 02:40 PM
Let me talk to the neighbor who told me and I'll e-mail the info if your e-mail address is the same.
Posted by: Churlita | April 11, 2007 at 10:09 AM