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Jul. 27th, 2010 08:59 pmI am crawling out from underneath Googledocs to declare myself NOT DEAD!
Seriously though, this writing thing, I think I might need some kind of recovery program.
I am rewriting a novel, eyeballing a second for rewrite, feeling guilty about finishing a third, trying not to feel deeply insecure about the pitch I'm writing for a fourth, gaping at how far one fanfic is from being finished, realising another that I thought was finished needs three thousand more words, and pointedly ignoring two more.
Maybe I need to stop sleeping. It can't be that hard.
I do get a lot more time than most to write, because of the nature of my job, which I'm very grateful for. There are times when I am amazed that the secret has not got out about how administrative work is pretty much the best job in the universe for a writer. And then I realise no; it's that my job is ideal for it, and my job is a product of several different factors, not universal across the board. I realised this again today when one of the other admins, who has just taken on a new boss, stopped to tell me that she'd be late subbing in for me at lunch because new boss has given her two new duties:
1. Fetch him breakfast and
2. Fetch him lunch.
Technically this is probably something a lot of PAs do, but our company culture is such that it has come as a little bit of a shock to everyone that she is now his personal caterer. He literally walks past the building breakfast bar on the way in to work; is he really so busy he can't stop and buy his own damn bowl of oatmeal? It's not exactly endearing him to anyone, and nobody's all that impressed that he eats lunch at his desk. When we're offsite I fetch food and other necessities for BossBoss, and I'm happy to do it, but he doesn't make it part of my ordinary day and he procures his breakfast himself.
Anyway, the upshot is that I love my job, I love my second-job writing, I love BossBoss because he's the Best Boss, and I also need two more hours in a day.
Or maybe instead of not sleeping I should just learn how to stop time. There's gotta be a webinar about that on the internet somewhere.
Seriously though, this writing thing, I think I might need some kind of recovery program.
I am rewriting a novel, eyeballing a second for rewrite, feeling guilty about finishing a third, trying not to feel deeply insecure about the pitch I'm writing for a fourth, gaping at how far one fanfic is from being finished, realising another that I thought was finished needs three thousand more words, and pointedly ignoring two more.
Maybe I need to stop sleeping. It can't be that hard.
I do get a lot more time than most to write, because of the nature of my job, which I'm very grateful for. There are times when I am amazed that the secret has not got out about how administrative work is pretty much the best job in the universe for a writer. And then I realise no; it's that my job is ideal for it, and my job is a product of several different factors, not universal across the board. I realised this again today when one of the other admins, who has just taken on a new boss, stopped to tell me that she'd be late subbing in for me at lunch because new boss has given her two new duties:
1. Fetch him breakfast and
2. Fetch him lunch.
Technically this is probably something a lot of PAs do, but our company culture is such that it has come as a little bit of a shock to everyone that she is now his personal caterer. He literally walks past the building breakfast bar on the way in to work; is he really so busy he can't stop and buy his own damn bowl of oatmeal? It's not exactly endearing him to anyone, and nobody's all that impressed that he eats lunch at his desk. When we're offsite I fetch food and other necessities for BossBoss, and I'm happy to do it, but he doesn't make it part of my ordinary day and he procures his breakfast himself.
Anyway, the upshot is that I love my job, I love my second-job writing, I love BossBoss because he's the Best Boss, and I also need two more hours in a day.
Or maybe instead of not sleeping I should just learn how to stop time. There's gotta be a webinar about that on the internet somewhere.
