diane pops her head in.
It's likely this semi-hiatus will continue for a while. If you want to be kept abreast of any little tidbits I send out, join the notify list.
I think hiatuses (hiati?) are probably part of the ebb and flow a journal goes through. Now there's a pretentious topic for "Why Web Journals Suck": The Life Cycle of a Journal. Feel free to submit your nominations for names for the various phases. Perhaps:
- Look at me! Look at me! I can write anything I want!
- Damn. Now what do I write about?
- Talking smack about the Journal Cabal.
- Fuck. I've really pissed Aunt Janie off. Take down entries!
- I can't talk about that.
- Fuck everybody!!! I'm going off-line!!!
- Hi. I'm back! Look at me! Look at me!
Anyhow, so as not to leave you completely in the dark as to what I've been doing, here goes:
Pookie is crawling. She has been for a while, not particularly well, but last night she bounded across the blanket we've put across the living room rug for her to play on, heading straight for Daddy. No doubt about it: crawling. Darin and I are both thankful she hasn't figured out yet she can travel like that all the time, but we both give that about a week at this point. I am going to call Safer Baby and arrange for gates.
Yes, I am writing. Rather regularly and rather well, thanks for asking. Every day I find two or three hours to apply butt to chair and type. I didn't take my Powerbook with to Pittsburgh and had a hell of a time getting back into the swing of things when I got back, so I have -- once again -- learned my lesson: write every day. I haven't as yet worked out with Darin when I'm going to do this on the weekends, but I'm going to take at least an hour or two on both Saturday and Sunday.
I've come up with an idea for a new script. Yeah, I know: I was as surprised as you are. I called the Weather Service and no, hell hasn't frozen over. I gave Darin the general gist of it and he was like, Way cool! I also told Tamar, and she said it sounded good to her. I haven't started writing it yet. I still have to flesh out the central idea, and it's in a slightly different genre than I'm used to. I can tell I have a Story Editor in there who wants to add mystery/suspense elements, and I want to avoid doing that. We'll see.
I was going to write a long entry about all the reading I've been doing -- I've probably read thirty or so mystery novels over the past month, in addition to a few other books. But I don't have the time right now to do capsule summaries.
And I'm not even sure I should. I read the book reviews people do on Dorothy-L (the mystery writers-and-readers mailing list) and then I read the book and I think: Wow, did I miss the boat, or did they? I have contemplated the fact that I may, in fact, be too critical. After all, if my book ever goes out there, I want people to post glowing reviews, don't I?
So maybe I'll just post the good reviews.
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Copyright 2000 Diane Patterson
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