It's three in the morning on day four of my holiday. Book is keeping me awake. God I can't wait for the day to come when I have an editor of my very own. At the moment I'm reshuffling and rewriting. An issue I'm dealing with is managing how the tone of Novel changes dramatically. This is mainly caused by whatever disruptions in the outside world may have impacted my brain at particular times. Essentially I'm working on toning up and down...
Today is Tuesday and I am resisting dipping into holiday mode because work is wild as always and I kind of need to focus. But next week is chapter week blog family! It is my first full week off in over a year and I'm going to spend the whole thing with my face buried in words aiming to surface with novel. In any event, novel will be closer closer closer. Then I can focus on other important life things, like a sequel for The Carrier. In addition...
I ran away again for the weekend. Into the woods. I met a lovely woman on the train traveling north who cuddled Frankie the entire way and chatted with me about how she's preparing for a dog or two. And then, once again, I hid in the forest for a few days. Entering my second summer, back in the states. I find myself shedding hideous memories that once were relevant. I am aware, and responsible, for the impact that my despair has taken on my body...
So a bestie of mine phoned earlier to advise that he's dropping one of our other bestie's off at JFK airport at 3am then swinging over. I'm expecting him somewhere between 3.30 - 4am. A lover gave me Bulgari perfume and fresh cut flowers yesterday. The gesture shocked me. I'm 34 years old, no man has ever presented be with glass contained fragrance before. Furthermore, the gesture was extraordinarily considerate seeing as this particular perfume...
I've had a good run of book obsession blog family. For the past four days all free moments involve some type of click. A friend of mine even went so far to make the comment, "Man. Since you copped that new laptop, you're working on your book like woah." Over the past few days I got through around 20,000 words and concluded the session with, "Sheesh." I feel like the difference between writing this novel and the first one is that in the first...