At some point before going on writing retreat, I moved my laptop downstairs. Right before Christmas I wasn't doing much writing and it felt more cozy having the computer down here by the tree and the woodstove. Since getting home from writing retreat, I haven't taken the laptop, my camera, or the big bag of books and moleskines back up to my writing garret. The only thing I've done up there is put away bills and receipts.
We have a nice big desk right by the kitchen and this is where I've planted myself since Tuesday. I've taken this last few days off from novel writing, but it's time to get back in the swing and I'm trying to figure out WHERE. Right now I'm having a slight urge to move my writing chair and ottoman down to the bedroom and set up camp there.
I'm not sure why - I love my writing space upstairs. Maybe I just need a change. Or maybe it's time to re-do the garret. I wonder if I'm just tired of the way it's organized ... I might play around with that on Sunday.
Thought I'd seek some assistance from the Chinese Fortune Sticks that found their way into someone's Christmas stocking this year:
"A very jealous person will quarrel with you."
Oh lord.
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Can I find what you have written at our library, Billie?
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ps Just ignore the fortune cookie- it was probably left by your cat, who wants your chair, again!
Not yet - hopefully soon! I have come close with the first novel and now need to get the second and third ones out there. I'll definitely post good news here. :)
ReplyDeleteLOL about Dickens being the jealous one, over the chair! You're probably right!
Good luck! It is a tough business to break into, but then....look at Stephen King!
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I've had good agents working on my behalf, and am back in sale mode this month, so perhaps 2008 will be the year. :)
ReplyDeleteI can very much relate, being married to a writer with three of his five books in a series being written, and then being told by large publishing houses that 'These are very good, excellent in fact, but, we aren't publishing much fantasy now', which is BS! So, he is turning them into soundplays- more up his alley, as he is a musician first and foremost- using background music, sound effects, and various female and male actors for the various voices.
ReplyDeleteMaybe 2008 WILL be the year for all of us!
Aryd'ell
Oh, I do hope so - it is so hard to get so close and have the rejection be "I love it, but..."
ReplyDeleteHere's to lots of book sales in 2008!