Reading: Cartoon History of the Universe Vol. III
Music: Billy Bragg's "Don't Try This At Home"
TV/Movie: Titus Andronicus
Link o' the Day: The Fanac Fan History Project

*streeeetches!*

Wooh. Busy past couple of nights. Between freelance and writing, been a busy, busy boy. Even then I'm not quite all caught up and I'll need to be by the end of the week. Going to be an even busier weekend as we get Pretty Maggie moved up here. So this week is going to be full of getting Hollywood's Golden Age and the next SFWA Bulletin ready for the printers as well as a brochure for a friend of mine and some prelim work on SOH#2.

Wiiiild doggies. nothing like keeping busy. (Note to self--have to burn a big backup CD tonight.)

And I've been doing some more writing. Not entirely focused, but moving in a general direction. So long as I do some each day, and have an idea before I sit down what I want to write, I'm doing well. I'm tempted to start getting up even an hour earlier than I do now (making it 4am) to get a head start on some writing.

Which brings me to ask some of the other writers who visit this journal--what's your writing schedule like? Are you a morning person? Afternoon? Night owl? Or do you write during that time known as The Dark Night of the Soul? (sometime twixt 2 and 5am). One highly successful author I know sits down to write at 10pm and keeps going until around 5 in the morning when he goes to bed. His wife looks over his work from the night before. He gets up again around noon, does his day--sometimes research and related work, then like clockwork sits down at 10pm again.

Of course he has the distinct advantage of being able to make a living off his writing. The rest of us (the majority of us have a dayjob or two. Or are in school. It's fine to say, "If you're serious about writing, you make time," but it's not very realistic. There's the other famous saying: "One must eat." (and here I'll take a leap and assign a metaphorical stretch to the word "eat" to mean social interactions, gathering energy via recreation or rest, reading, sleeping, etc.).

Some authors take seven years to write a book. Some seven months. A rare few can do it in seven weeks or less--the bastahds. It takes as long as it takes.

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Today's link goes to The Fanac Fan History Project. This is one of the best Fan sites around. It contains photos from Worldcons going all the way back to the first one, old-ancient fanzines, artifacts, and more. It's well worth a look for anyone who is the slightest bit interested in the history of science fiction fandom.

Enjoy!