Weekend gone already?

[rolanni]

So, Chapters 11, 12, and 13 have been dealt with as they deserve. Chapter 14 needs an entire rewrite; I've gotten a start on that, but the rest will have to wait until tomorrow.

I will note that, though I've removed two chapters, the manuscript hasn't actually lost any words to this point. This is a Good Thing, as the last draft ended short. Still shooting for 98,000 words.

In and around sawing chapters into bits and sewing them back together, I've been thinking about how I'm going to integrate the new job with the rest of the tasks that need doing, including the office work for SRM, the books under contract, the book not under contract, the gym, chores, and actually getting some sleep. I know that people do this all the time and it's no big deal, but my last full-time (OK, something well over full-time) job was work-from-home, and I could trade out a Thursday for a Saturday, if things needed doing. My last full-time, away-from-home job ended in 1992. I'm a little out of practice is what I'm saying.

It would be nice if my requisition for an eighteen-hour-day would go through...

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[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Okay, here's your practice.

Put one hand on your head, and one on your tummy. Now pat with the hand on your head, and make circles with the one on your tummy.

When that is going pretty well, switch hands.

This is not the practice you had in mind? Well, we have a special on second-hand yoga exercises this week, too, if you're interested in them.

Don't worry, full-time work develops its own rhythm pretty fast.

[saruby.livejournal.com]

Alas, the problem is not a job, but two, only one of which earns a regular paycheck. And then there's life, which is a different proposition altogether.

Indeed, I know that I worked a regular job at one point that frequently required 45 to 50 hours to complete and there was also all of the other necessities of life and raising a child (yet another unpaid full-time job). However, I'm not sure I can remember how I did it except that I was slowly drowning and going crazy on the way down.

Unfortunately, our culture seems to have lost the concept of patronage for the arts. I know this used to happen. Ever applied for a MacArthur grant? I think those are the one you get for just being a creative genius-type person. Could have the name wrong, not being a creative-type or genius-type person.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think I'm in for an Interesting Time through the first of the year.

With luck, the temp job will run its full 12 weeks, which gets me to the week before the LL Bean xmas season opens, where I'm also scheduled to work 40+/- hours a week. Oh, and I have a teaching gig on Wednesday evenings starting in September.

The office work for SRM is a two-thirds time job by itself, and the writing takes as long as the writing takes, with one deadline in December and another in February.

I expect I'll be Some Tired in March...

Ever applied for a MacArthur grant?

I know the one you mean -- and no, I haven't, not being a genuis myself. I did just apply for one of the Maine Arts Commission grants, which may be a shock to their system. They must have at least heard of science fiction, since Liz Hand was awarded this same grant a couple, six years ago...