Just a Quick Note, Saying Sorry

Sorry. I’ve let myself get behind with things. So for those of you who are waiting for things from me, I promise you’ll have them soon.

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Incidentally, I think I’ve found a way to be more efficient. It’s this: examine your life. Identify the things in it that you don’t need, don’t like and/or make things more difficult than they ought to be. If they’re not essential: get rid of them. (NB. This does not only apply to routines or processes. It can include people and extra cups of tea as well, for example.)

Up and Down Sort of Day

I Twittered this morning saying that I thought this was going to be a long day. And it has been. It really, really has.

I had A LOT of work to catch up on, and I’ve not done too badly. Plenty has spilled into tomorrow though, more than I’d hoped. And I wasn’t helped by various people drilling and cutting hedges and generally making too much noise. But such is life. I just wish things could be quieter at times, or that I could concentrate on complicated things with lots of noise going on around me. But in spite of all the distractions I’ve managed to get contracts and permissions and tax forms (ick!) signed and sent so a short story of mine can be used on a distance creative writing course in the US, which is pleasing.
And my head’s about full. Time to call it a day I reckon.

Busy

Well I think I’m as busy as I’ve ever been, possibly even as busy as when I was doing the Roaming Roman Book Tour all those years ago.

And what have I been doing?
Photobook work, mostly to do with the launch now and posting books (and it’s not just editors, type-setters and the like who I have a new found greater respect for, it’s everyone who’s involved in small presses and small publishers – hats off – it must be INCREDIBLY hard work).
And Katherine, the supercool photographer and collaborator is poorly – good vibes to her please folks. Desperately hoping she’ll be able to make the launch.
On top of that there’s my work I’ve tried to do (looking at my white board I’ve twelve stories that are waiting, eagerly, to be sent to places) and that’s not taking into account stuff I want/need to write – that’s had to be put off, sadly. But I NEED to get back to doing that soon. I need the money! And I miss it.
And I went to a reading yesterday morning at the local Drop-In Centre. Which was fun. My stories were really well received, which was great and I got to listen to some really great poems too. And, possibly best of all, I was able to see the lovely Joy Winkler sing – she was great – what a performance! (Btw, Joy’ll be there on Sunday, maybe we should convince her to do a rendition…)
 
And on top of all of the above there have been a handful of really crappy situations. I’m not going to go into them here, but they’ve got me down and, mostly, could have been avoided.
I’m just tired now. And looking forward to Sunday’s launch, and to a bit of a rest and then getting back into things – especially another really cool top secret project.
And thus ends my rather garbled post. There should be something more cohesive soon. Unless I melt.

Busy, busy

Being busy’s a funny one – it’s great and yet it’s annoying at the same time; there’s lots I’ve yet to do that I thought I’d have done by now.

Just you wait till tomorrow, folks. Boy oh boy, oh boy do I have a treat in store for you!

In the meantime – here are the two proofs of the writing group’s books I collected from the (terrific) printers yesterday.

Right. Back to it. I think I need to finish up soon.