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Second kiss and Salerno
had a great book launch for Second Kiss at the Dora Keogh in Toronto. Sold a goodly number of books through Ben McNally books. Meanwhile toiling daily on the follow-up Missing Piece and I'm really enjoying it. First draft is almost complete including formatting of text etc. It being a book about pieces I have a number of fairly small fractured chapters but a large cast of characters.
Monday I'm off to Salerno Italy for a poetry Festival. Back on June 10. That's my fourth travel this season, more than usual for sure, especially when I've got a book to finish but the same thing happened when I went to Japan and had to finish Second Kiss and look how good that turned out (I tell myself).
In between times I'm gigging with my band, (just did a great gig at say what in Toronto), writing songs, writing poems for my new book of children's poems called People like you and Me. And about halfway through a book about old poems which includes quite a number of sonnets I'm slightly embarrassed to say.
I have an idea for a new young adult novel after I finished missing piece. But this one will take place in our world and not be a fantasy. But the main character will be a kind of rude brilliant revolutionary chatty person. That will be about April Fools' Day.
I've also changed my workstation again. I now have a wireless keyboard and I sit about 4 feet back from a large iMac screen with the resolution up large so I have no problem seeing it. Mostly I dictate but when necessary I have the little keyboard with the touchpad on my lap. I probably write three times as much like this is I ever did or could physically in my years of plunking at a typewriter. That's good because there's a lot of ancillary writing tasks that go with being a writer and it's easy to get up in the morning and wind up doing two or three hours of feeling forms and writing emails so that by the time you're finished the energy for creative writing has been severely dipped into by mundane but necessary tasks. Now I can do that work which isn't psychologically taxing and have it not be physically taxing either so that late in the day if I get inspired and need to spill out some whole episode or chapter or delineate an idea I can do it without hurting myself.
And that's good. Plus I'm learning a bit of Italian
Monday I'm off to Salerno Italy for a poetry Festival. Back on June 10. That's my fourth travel this season, more than usual for sure, especially when I've got a book to finish but the same thing happened when I went to Japan and had to finish Second Kiss and look how good that turned out (I tell myself).
In between times I'm gigging with my band, (just did a great gig at say what in Toronto), writing songs, writing poems for my new book of children's poems called People like you and Me. And about halfway through a book about old poems which includes quite a number of sonnets I'm slightly embarrassed to say.
I have an idea for a new young adult novel after I finished missing piece. But this one will take place in our world and not be a fantasy. But the main character will be a kind of rude brilliant revolutionary chatty person. That will be about April Fools' Day.
I've also changed my workstation again. I now have a wireless keyboard and I sit about 4 feet back from a large iMac screen with the resolution up large so I have no problem seeing it. Mostly I dictate but when necessary I have the little keyboard with the touchpad on my lap. I probably write three times as much like this is I ever did or could physically in my years of plunking at a typewriter. That's good because there's a lot of ancillary writing tasks that go with being a writer and it's easy to get up in the morning and wind up doing two or three hours of feeling forms and writing emails so that by the time you're finished the energy for creative writing has been severely dipped into by mundane but necessary tasks. Now I can do that work which isn't psychologically taxing and have it not be physically taxing either so that late in the day if I get inspired and need to spill out some whole episode or chapter or delineate an idea I can do it without hurting myself.
And that's good. Plus I'm learning a bit of Italian
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