Ok, that was cool. The Forbeses just came by with copies of URBAN SHAMAN for me to sign for them. I hadn’t seen Rene since last summer and I don’t think I’d seen Liam or Lisa since David’s wake. That was just…good. It’s good to see family.
My goodness, what a lot of little boys!
My goodness, what a lot of little boys! Ted and I drove out to Big Lake tonight to see my family, who were in town in droves. Johnny and his two oldest boys, Jacob who is befreckled and Joshua who is a dead ringer for his daddy (not that Jacob doesn’t look like him, but Joshua looks startlingly like him); Maggie and her three boys, Louis, Derek and Ian, who all have their mommy’s eyes (she appears to still have them too, which is a relief) and also her nephew…
what a difference
What a difference getting up at 6:45 and getting up at 7:45 makes to my mindset. Earlier is better. I feel more like I can tackle things, or something. Like I haven’t already wasted a big chunk of the day. Writing’s hard enough in the summer (I just want to be outside PLAYING), but boy, get me started an hour later and I just feel like everything’s shot to shit. Combine that with the whole “why isn’t this book done yet, I’ve already put lots of work into it” feeling…
nice day
’twas a good day. I got my 3K in, walked, and Shaun and I had a nice bonding experience of scraping wallpaper together. Well, at the same time, anyway. And the bonding was the wallpaper glue. But the kitchen wall is now *clear* of wallpaper. Next step: strip the paint from one or more of the cabinet doors and see what kind of condition the wood beneath is in. I’m hoping it looks nice enough that we can strip them, give ’em a light sanding and a coat of stain…
query: emotional state of a novelist
x-posted in part from my regular journal, ’cause I think a bunch of the writers I know don’t subscribe to the , and I’m curious to see what people say. I’m on the downward end of this book. I wonder how other novelists I know feel when they finish writing a book. I seem to recall a lot of triumph when I finished my first one, and being pretty pleased when I finished my second, especially as I’d given myself a deadline and stuck to it. I was astonished and…