Real Work
October 10, 1999
9:21 a.m.
Yesterday was a lot of work. I spent most of the day reworking the layout of our office downstairs. I moved bookshleves. I sorted through old magazines and stuff. I brought int he filing cabinets that Lisa had purchased while I was in LA. I moved files into those bookshelves. And after all that work, there's still a bunch of junk hanging around. Some of that work was pretty illuminating, though. I have a filing cabinet full of old drafts of my first novel. It's all packed in a cardborad box, though, not "filed." I'll keep that box someplace for what it means. Somewhere in that box is how I learned how to write a novel, and I would hate to lose that. The second and third novels don't have nearly that amount of stuff--although it's probably not fair to say much about the second one, as I don't consider it finished. So, I suppose it could grow. I split my short stories file into two bunches. One is for "completed," the other is for "sold." I need to sell a few stories. You see, I have a full cabinet of "completed" stories, but only half a cabinet of "sold" stories. So, there's only one obvious solution. (I don't want any e-mail mentioning that I could just use a different drawer, okay?) All-in-all, I would rather have done some writing. But I have to admit it was good to look at what I've accomplished in the past few years. It's even more impressive when you realize that I don't keep hardcopy of every draft of everything I write--that I leave to the hard disk and a monthly zip-drive back-up. But there's something more impressive about looking at a row of stories than looking at a zip-disk, you know?   I'm starting to get comments back on "Operation Hercules." Good ideas. Will have to focus on them here in the next couple days. Rejections are trickling slowly. The post office apprently lost my submission of "1 is True," so I had to get that out the door again--along with three or four others. In other words, things are getting back to normal. But it won't last. [key ominous music] Have a good day.  Daily Persistence is © Ron Collins |
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