Well, dear readers, here we are at the end of the first week in January. This year is already speeding by like a gazelle doing the twenty-yard dash or the eight foot hyphen. Yesterday, I attended to quite a few things, including further exploration of this here Powerbook. Today, Mr. Mac Man comes at two o’clock to spend an hour or two showing me short cuts and some things I just haven’t mastered yet. I have a whole list of questions that he will hopefully be able to answer. Last night I had a splendidly splendid dinner with the Geissmans and our very own Tammy Minoff, who just returned from New York. On the way home from dinner, Grant played me some tracks from his new solo CD that he just recorded. It’s quite good – all original tunes by himself, played by some really solid musicians. I got quite a few packages yesterday, one from dear reader Jose that was quite a treat – cookies and biscotti in a priority box. Knowing it was a priority, I immediately ate a few of the mind-bogglingly delicious biscotti. I also got some nice CDs in a priority box. I also got a first edition of Ted Hughes’ The Iron Giant, a lovely little tome with lovely little illustrations. This copy is signed by the illustrator. First editions of this book are hard to come by in any kind of collectible condition – this is a really lovely copy in jacket. When I first saw the film, I went on the Internet searching for a first edition and there were none to be found at all, for any price. When I watched the new Special Edition DVD, I went on again and this time I found this lovely copy, which was, thankfully, not too expensive. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too?
I got a nice e-mail from one of the people who run Talkin’ Broadway – he read Writer’s Block and really liked it, so that was nice. Marcy the Marketing Lady is working her buns off, getting the book in stores, and trying to schedule a few signings. We heard from The Drama Book Shop in New York, and they now seem to be interested in having a signing/reading (probably because of the theatermania.com pick and review). So, if we can book one other signing so that they’re within a day or two of each other, then I’ll come back to New York, which will be fun. As soon as I know anything, you shall know.
It was funny, but yesterday I was sitting, typing up all these scattered notes I have for what will hopefully be my next book, and I started to feel guilty that I hadn’t actually started writing it. Can you imagine? It hasn’t even been three weeks since I finished the script I just wrote and polished. So, I’m not going to feel guilty – I’m just going to let the ideas float around my brain, and maybe I’ll start writing in a week or two if it feels right. Part of it is really trying to switch gears from the book I’d already started. This happened with Writer’s Block, too – I’d started something else that was a million miles away from what would become Writer’s Block. I do think I’ve settled on the title I like best (I had two good ones, but one seems really right to me, now that I’ve typed up these notes). I’m still deciding on exactly what time period this will take place in – the one time period it will not take place in is now. I just don’t seem to want to write a book that takes place now. For the reasons why, read Writer’s Block.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below, because many things await us in the next section.
Well, I was wrong. Nothing whatsoever awaits us in this section. That’s not quite accurate, at least for me. Biscotti and cookies are awaiting me in this section.
For various reasons I have not been able to start my seriously serious diet as yet. But come Monday, it begins and I will be merciless about it, until I have lost twenty pounds. I’m not quite certain what diet it is that I’ll do (probably one of my own concocting), but whatever diet I end up doing, I shall do it until I am svelte and lithe as a gazelle in winter.
My goodness, these here notes are all over the map today, aren’t they? Part of the notes are in Italy, part in Japan, part in Puerto Vallarta – just all over the map. These here notes are global, dear readers. The Global Notes, that’s what these notes are. I just don’t seem to be able to focus on one thing – and the paragraphs are flitting about like a gazelle on uppers. I’m here, I’m there, just like the Scarlet Pimpernel. I have never written such global notes before.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must prepare myself for Mr. Mac Man, I must do some of this and some of that and also some of that and some of this, I must, for example, do global things in honor of these here global notes, I must try not to eat too many biscottis – Too Many Biscottis… Isn’t that from Follies? Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your DVD/video player and your CD player? I’ll start – DVD, Gunga Din and Countess Dracula (now there’s a double bill). CD, Penelope by Johnny Williams, and Bachelor in Paradise by Henry Mancini (house player), and various home-grown CDs (car player). Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, and do make them all over the map so we have global posts as well as global notes.