Well, dear readers, I know it’s becoming dreary reading about all the writing but the writing is what I’m doing and therefore it’s what I talk about. Once I’m done, then I can talk about all sorts of other things, like why I don’t like pantyhose, or why I don’t eat pickled pig’s feet or even non-pickled pig’s feet, or any number of other topics. But for now, I talk about the writing and writing is what I did yesterday. I was finessing by ten. Finessing By Ten – that’s the title of my next novel, a gay story of life among the hoi polloi of Rhode Island in the 1920s. In any case, I was finessing by ten and done finessing by eleven. I then proceeded to write over eight new pages. The good news is that as I hoped I am moving much more quickly through the years now. For example, covering the years 1993 and 1994 took close to two hundred pages, but 1995 will only take about forty. That is because I’m only going into real detail about certain albums now, while others I get through very quickly as there aren’t any really good stories about certain albums. Plus, I’ve explained how I came to do what I did and that all happened on the first twenty albums. So, now I hope I shall get through the rest of the Varese years in the next sixty or seventy pages, which will leave two hundred and fifty pages for the subsequent label’s creation and then travails, and what happened after. If I keep to that, then this book will be of similar length to There’s Mel. It could end up a tiny bit longer, but I wouldn’t think by much.
After I did the eight pages, I went and had a sandwich and onion rings, picked up no packages, and came home and wrote and additional fifteen pages. I was happy to finish all the writing by five-thirty, so that I then had the evening hours all to myself. I did some things around the home environment and then sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I watched another Maigret film, Maigret’s Childhood Friend. Another fine movie peopled with yet more great actors. I just love watching these but after I get through this box and then box four, I’m pretty much done, as box five, from what I understand, only has two of the ten episodes with subtitles, so I won’t be getting that fifth box. Maybe then I’ll give the Michael Gambon version another try, although for me Bruno Cremer is Inspector Maigret.
After the movie, I went to Gelson’s and got some little crab claws (very few calories, if any) and some soup (ditto) and I had those as my evening snack – really filling, too. I had a nice long telephonic conversation with someone who will play an important role in the book – I hadn’t talked to this person in seven or eight years and it was fun to catch up. I discussed certain details of certain things and made notes.
I also proofed one half of a new master and am just waiting on the other half now. I approved the packaging on that title, but the other title we’re still futzing with the packaging and then it has to go in for approval – sometimes that comes quickly, sometimes it can take a few weeks.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below whilst I begin to formulate my thoughts on why I don’t like pantyhose as well as get a good night’s beauty sleep.
Today, I shall be up at nine, I shall have a telephonic meeting of short duration, I shall finesse, I shall really try to jog, I shall write, I shall eat, I shall hopefully pick up some packages and an important envelope, I shall write, I shall write, and then I shall undoubtedly watch a Maigret film.
Tomorrow is a busy day. Just when I’m supposed to get any writing done is the question, as she of the Evil Eye will be here, and then I’m seeing a matinee and then having a meal and then attending a little birthday do close by. I guess I’ll try to come home by noon, write for an hour, then go to the theater. Then I’ll try to be home by eight-thirty or nine and I can take the next three hours and get at least ten to fifteen pages done. I’m so far ahead of where I’d normally be in a Hofstetter book so I’m not too concerned about it. In fact, if this were a Hofstetter book I’d be done with it by tomorrow, which is less than two weeks. Whew. Sunday is another busy day, judging some singing contest, but once I’m finished with that, I should be able to come home and get some good writing time in. I can’t remember if there’s something else going on on Sunday, but it wouldn’t be till later if there is. The following week will be heavy on the writing, but I’ll also be going to the DGA several times to see the nominated films.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, have a telephonic meeting, finesse, maybe jog, write, eat, hopefully pick up some packages and an important envelope, write, write, and then relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player, and your DVD/video player? I’ll start – CD, our new masters, plus the occasional BK produced disc to refresh my memory on certain things – yesterday it was the Laurie Beechman Andrew Lloyd Webber CD – I’d forgotten just how spectacular it is. Blu and Ray, the French film La Piscene, and on DVD, more Maigret. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland and ponder why I don’t like pantyhose.