Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Repair Mode
I think my body's finally had enough. I didn't set my alarm today and slept 13 hours. Would've slept longer, except, you know, eventually you have to pee, and when I saw that the clock said 1:04pm, I decided I'd better get up. Jesus.
Won't get any writing done today, but I am feeling better, so I plan to get at it again tomorrow. In the meantime, a little blogging! Hooray!
One of the things that I haven't even touched on was that I had four book events sandwiched around WorldCon, and of course WorldCon proved to be one giant five-day book selling orgy in and of itself. This on top of the usual chaos in our household. I am *beat*. And I know guys who run on twenty-city tours every year, plus a convention or three. Most of them don't have kids, or don't have small kids, at least, but I honestly don't know how they do it, especially because they're moving on a much higher plane than yours truly. I figure I spoke to 100 people in those four events, chatting up store managers and personnel as well. Plus a few radio interviews, blog interviews, and the thing for San Francisco Chronicle. That's a lot of *on*, if you know what I mean. But I've seen NYT bestsellers draw more than 100 people to a single event, and you want to be interesting and fun and unique to every single person. It just takes a lot of energy.
Don't get me wrong. These are GREAT problems to have. I'm very, very excited to be involved with talking up my novels, whether I'm on the phone, this keyboard, or driving or flying hither and yon... it's just that these events take away from my writing.
It's past time to get back to Mind Plague.
Won't get any writing done today, but I am feeling better, so I plan to get at it again tomorrow. In the meantime, a little blogging! Hooray!
One of the things that I haven't even touched on was that I had four book events sandwiched around WorldCon, and of course WorldCon proved to be one giant five-day book selling orgy in and of itself. This on top of the usual chaos in our household. I am *beat*. And I know guys who run on twenty-city tours every year, plus a convention or three. Most of them don't have kids, or don't have small kids, at least, but I honestly don't know how they do it, especially because they're moving on a much higher plane than yours truly. I figure I spoke to 100 people in those four events, chatting up store managers and personnel as well. Plus a few radio interviews, blog interviews, and the thing for San Francisco Chronicle. That's a lot of *on*, if you know what I mean. But I've seen NYT bestsellers draw more than 100 people to a single event, and you want to be interesting and fun and unique to every single person. It just takes a lot of energy.
Don't get me wrong. These are GREAT problems to have. I'm very, very excited to be involved with talking up my novels, whether I'm on the phone, this keyboard, or driving or flying hither and yon... it's just that these events take away from my writing.
It's past time to get back to Mind Plague.
Labels: the writing life, WorldCon again
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