I had what could more or less be considered the perfect weekend. Not because I especially enjoyed it, but in theory, I got out of a weekend everything I've always thought I've wanted to do. Namely, I wrote, slept and watched MST3K.
And man, am I bushed.
People who aren't writers don't understand how much it takes out of you. It's mentally taxing. It's headache inducing, eye-frying torture. Yesterday I spent approximately six hours in my office, with short breaks for getting the mail and making lunch (which I ate at my desk) and at the end, I had finished a microfiction piece that took a lot longer than I'm use to spending on something less than 500 words (from inception to finished story took three weeks; by contrast, I wrote the first draft of "The PI's Wife" in 45 minutes, then typed it, and "Hero Cop" was written to a final draft in a total of 30 minutes, counting the walk back from the Brooklyn library where I wrote most of it on a piece of scrap paper in tiny golf pencil). I then started on another piece, which is an absolute mess. When I'd done all I could on that (it's still a mess), I sent out half a dozen submissions because my self-esteem is getting a little too high. I finally shut it all down and watched Riding With Death, which I did not fall asleep during.
Today I got up and spent 4 hours tweaking and arranging a full-length manuscript for submission. Then it was onto The Projected Man, which I made it through about 3/4 of.
*yawn*
And man, am I bushed.
People who aren't writers don't understand how much it takes out of you. It's mentally taxing. It's headache inducing, eye-frying torture. Yesterday I spent approximately six hours in my office, with short breaks for getting the mail and making lunch (which I ate at my desk) and at the end, I had finished a microfiction piece that took a lot longer than I'm use to spending on something less than 500 words (from inception to finished story took three weeks; by contrast, I wrote the first draft of "The PI's Wife" in 45 minutes, then typed it, and "Hero Cop" was written to a final draft in a total of 30 minutes, counting the walk back from the Brooklyn library where I wrote most of it on a piece of scrap paper in tiny golf pencil). I then started on another piece, which is an absolute mess. When I'd done all I could on that (it's still a mess), I sent out half a dozen submissions because my self-esteem is getting a little too high. I finally shut it all down and watched Riding With Death, which I did not fall asleep during.
Today I got up and spent 4 hours tweaking and arranging a full-length manuscript for submission. Then it was onto The Projected Man, which I made it through about 3/4 of.
*yawn*
It wont be too hard
ReplyDeletein Seventh-Heaven, dear.
Coming ..??