Putting one's house in order
Saturday, January 1st, 2005 01:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniKinzel has just brought home some portable shelves to go into our few, overworked closets. These look like a ghodsend for keeping things visible and orderly. I hatehatehate living in clutter. Just in case you wondered.
Last year, we were away from home a total of seven weeks on writing biz. That's 'waay too much, especially since I haven't really gotten the trick of writing on the road mastered. I find travel extremely distracting -- not necessarily in a bad way -- and while meeting lots and lots of people is energizing, it's not the sort of energy that's immediately convertible into creativity.
This year, we have one con scheduled, and plan to stick pretty close to home. What that will mean writing-wise, I don't exactly know, since we'll be contract-free after we hand in Crystal Dragon. I'm sure we'll think of some kind of trouble to get in to.
I lost far too many friends last year, so I expect the rest of ya'll to embrace immortality, OK? Except, you know, if it's really time to go -- well, we'll talk about it at the far side of the bridge. Meet me.
The New Year tradition I grew up with was, What you do on New Year's Day, you'll do for the rest of the year. Today, I'm making things tidy, listening to good music, spending time with Kinzel and the cats, working on the fiction project in hand, and writing to friends. Sounds like a good pattern for the rest of 2005.
Last year, we were away from home a total of seven weeks on writing biz. That's 'waay too much, especially since I haven't really gotten the trick of writing on the road mastered. I find travel extremely distracting -- not necessarily in a bad way -- and while meeting lots and lots of people is energizing, it's not the sort of energy that's immediately convertible into creativity.
This year, we have one con scheduled, and plan to stick pretty close to home. What that will mean writing-wise, I don't exactly know, since we'll be contract-free after we hand in Crystal Dragon. I'm sure we'll think of some kind of trouble to get in to.
I lost far too many friends last year, so I expect the rest of ya'll to embrace immortality, OK? Except, you know, if it's really time to go -- well, we'll talk about it at the far side of the bridge. Meet me.
The New Year tradition I grew up with was, What you do on New Year's Day, you'll do for the rest of the year. Today, I'm making things tidy, listening to good music, spending time with Kinzel and the cats, working on the fiction project in hand, and writing to friends. Sounds like a good pattern for the rest of 2005.
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Date: 2005-01-02 07:21 am (UTC)Last I saw, you were taking a week off. Which might not have worked out well for a year, either. You might have at least tried to hit a balance, Charlie.