Well, dear readers, I am on a writing jag, a writing tear, a writing binge. As I said yesterday, I’ve never written anywhere near eleven pages on the first day of a book. And yesterday I wrote about fifteen pages. I simply could not stop and every time I thought I was through I’d come back and do some more. Of course, I have no idea if it’s any good or if any of this stuff is interesting or at least written interestingly, and I won’t really know that until muse Margaret gets the first thirty-five pages or so (as soon as I finish the prologue, she’ll get however many pages that is). I had a little trouble figure out how to structure the prologue since I wanted to impart a lot of information in short bursts, like a highlights of a year. So, I had to find a way to do that that flowed and didn’t feel choppy, and I think I finally did. We’ll see how I feel when I reread it today. As I wrote about my year in New York, so many things came back to me, little tiny incidents, and I threw in as many as I could because they’re just fun memories that I have and that’s what this book is about, I guess. In between my writing jag, my writing tear, my writing binge, I did manage to do quite a few other things. She of the Evil Eye arrived at nine, and I was out of the house by nine-thirty. I went to the postal office and shipped some packages, I stopped at the bank, and then had some bacon and eggs. Eating is such an easy way to kill time. Then I did a few other errands and whatnot, put some gas in the new motor car (and I fear the wrong grade – I’m just so used to putting in the grade I put in the old motor car – I’m sure it won’t do any harm to have put in the wrong grade once, and I shan’t do it again, and it was only a half-tank of the wrong grade). I had no packages today, although I don’t think I’m due any. I spent the early afternoon writing, and then I delivered a big box o’ CDs. I then had a rather incredible telephonic call that had to do with the next Kritzerland release. What was going to be a nice release has, if all works out, turned into a major release that for some people will probably be one of the releases of the year. Keep digits crossed because it’s very exciting. I then wrote some more, and then went to Gelson’s and got a little thing of potato salad and a little thing of Chinese Chicken salad to snack on. I then sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I watched a motion picture on Blu and Ray entitled Cujo. I haven’t seen the film since it first came out, and I’d only seen it that once. I thought it was a good film, but I didn’t like all the sudden dog jumps and loud sounds and so I never wanted to see it again. It’s still a good film, and still has all the sudden dog jumps and loud sounds. It certainly gets the job done, but there’s just something about it that I don’t love in the way I love, say, Carrie or The Dead Zone, my two favorite Stephen King adaptations. The actors are fine, the various and sundried dogs who play Cujo are great, and the score by Charles Bernstein is really excellent. The director, Lewis Teague (he was not the original director – he replaced Peter Medak after a couple of days) keeps the whole thing moving along, and makes sure that you really care about the characters. The transfer was fine – the film was shot with occasional diffusion filters, so those shots are naturally softer than others, as they should be. After that, I began to watch Jackie Chan’s The Legend Of The Drunken Master, but I was too tired so instead I wrote another three or four pages and got to the point where we made the decision to leave New York and move back to LA.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because when you’ve been on a writing jag, a writing tear, a writing binge, then one tends to be written out by this time of the evening.
Today, I shall write, perhaps do a jog of some sort, eat something amusing, and do some errands and whatnot. Then I shall watch The Legend Of The Drunken Master and maybe one other motion picture on Blu and Ray.
This week will be filled with meetings, meals, and hopefully a lot of writing. I do want to get muse Margaret pages soon so she can tell me if I’m doing this well or not. I also have to get to my tape transfer guy and start going through all these tapes I have here, so I can settle on our next three or four projects, all of which have the potential to be very good.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, maybe do a jog, write, eat, do errands and whatnot, and then relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to make with the topics and we all get to post about them. So, let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hopefully continue on the writing jag, the writing tear, the writing binge.