Well, dear readers, I habe hab a bery long ebening – now wait just a dabned minbute – what are all those unseemly B’s boing in these words? That’s just plain obb, isn’t it? I’ve bot B’s on the brain, I guess. Perhaps that’s because I was busy as a bee today and also busy as a B. I don’t know, my finger keebs hibbing the B key and I bon’t really understabnd why. In any case, I’ll try to curb by enthubiasm, B-wise. Perhaps it’s just because I’m overtired. Whatever ib is, ib is. I got up early yesterday, had some bacon and eggs, and then went to The Hollywood Show. The new owners, I’m afraid, have now completely transformed the show into a circus sideshow. What I saw on view was hideous, and they got many, many complaints. I posted about it yesterday, so rather than rehash it here, just read the posts. Suffice it to say, it was a madhouse, and the celebs looked like caged animals. But I did have a nice chat with Miss Helen Reddy, whom I hadn’t seen since we did our album together. And I said hey to my dealer friends. After about ninety minutes I could take no more and I bolted from the jernt. I then had the motor car washed, and then moseyed on over the hill to lunch with dear reader Jeannie. We ate at Louise’s Trattoria, where I had a salad. That was very pleasant, and then I headed directly home. I then spent the rest of the day and evening finishing the proofing and the reading of the new book. It was fascinating getting to the end of the book. Most importantly, the final twenty-nine pages of the book proper (prior to the epilogue) were a revelation and not in a good way. Muse Margaret had had a problem with it and we couldn’t figure out why – I then came up with a solution she seemed to like and I added a few sentences. But at one point I’d said we could literally just cut the twenty-nine pages, and she said that gave her goose bumps because of the line we’d be going out on. However, doing that would leave out some important steps on the road to where I went. But reading the twenty-nine pages made me very impatient. The epiphany that leads into them is very strong, and once I got past that I saw immediately what had been bothering Margaret. I can’t wati to talk to her about it. I think I’ve come up with a really good solution, which is to end the book proper or at least that chapter with the epiphany. Then, either in a new chapter or directly to the epilogue, I will encapsulate what’s in those twenty-nine pages in about seven to ten pages. I think that will do the trick, nothing will be belabored as it is now – in covering the years just prior to 1993, which is where the book ends (with my giving everything up to become a record producer), I talk about four projects in a lot of detail. But I realized reading those pages, we simply do not need that extreme detail – we need to just mention the projects, tell an anecdote or two, and move on to the key information. Right now, the epilogue is only a page and a quarter – if I put all this stuff in the epilogue, it will be about twelve pages, which is fine (in book terms, that’s only about eight pages). Or, I will just have a final chapter, but still cut it down to its essence. So, that was a really good realization and I will now spend this week entering all my fixes (there are a lot because of the length of the book), adding two little things, and changing one section of the book’s timeline, which is actually going to require a lot of cutting and pasting. I’ll probably do that first, just to get it done. But most of what I’m doing is word fixes, or smoothing out very long sentences, and fixing some grammar stuff. The good news is the flow of the book really worked for me, and I had a good time reading it. Hopefully, muse Margaret will have finished the book by the end of today, and then we can go over those twenty-nine pages and figure out exactly how to shorten and tighten them down to ten pages maximum.
I went to Gelson’s for some potato salad, and they had some freshly carved turkey breast there, so I got two tiny pieces for a snack. And then, I went back to the book and figured out exactly what had to go where in the moved timeline section, so that shouldn’t be too difficult now.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below before I get busy as a B again and B’s begin to abbear in ebery worb I tybe.
Today, I shall go back to the book fair briefly. Neighbor Tony Slide will be calling me this morning and he may tag along. Then at four I have a one-hour work session for the long musical – we have to make sure a cast member can handle the musical side of things. After that, I’ll go eat something amusing but light, and then I’ll watch a motion picture or three.
Tomorrow, something is going on but I didn’t write it down so therefore have no idea what it is. The good news is that I always tell people to call and remind me, so hopefully I’ll hear about whatever it is. Aside from that, I’ll begin to enter the fixes for the book.
The rest of the week will be filled with fixes, and prepping our next Kritzerland release, which, for me, is very special.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, go to the book fair, have a work session, enter fixes, and eat. 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 get some resbite frob being busy as a B. And a bery happy Valentine’s Day to all. Send flowers. Give candy. Kiss a stranger. Give a hug.