Writing Every Day

So I type up my little manifesto yesterday, and post it to my blog, and then I get distracted by a whole bunch of things — my new contracts, which have arrived, my best friend who I haven’t spoken to in four months coming home from South America, my tax forms, and this really awful headache (Marley and Maureen, if you have given me your cold, you are so off my Xmas card list) and… I almost didn’t write!

Talk about a hypocrite, right? So last night around 10 I started to think about how awful it would be if I had to come onto the blog today and be all, “Hey, guys, thanks for sticking with me, but you know what, I’m such a flake, I already forgot.”

So I sat down and wrote three pages. Not a record by any means, but yeah, I did it. Whew. I’m still in. How about you all? Did you write yesterday?

It’s going to be a busy weekend for me. Being out of town so much in March really messed me up in terms of staying on top of the business end of my life. Robin may be into showing you pictures of her desk, but I can’t humiliate myself like that in public yet. And I have about 75 unanswered emails. And don’t even ask me about how many blog giveaway winners books are still sitting here, waiting to get shipped out. I think it’s at least four, not counting Patrick’s, which is almost a joke at this point.

I have to:
1) Go to Easter dinner (but not until Sunday).
2) Write. Write Write Write.
3) Finish going over my new contracts and get them back.
4) Finish all my taxes.
5) Get caught up on email and snail mail owed.
6) Clean. Dear lord, clean this place.

So, Sayonara.

PS: Is anyone else a huge fan of this song, “Orange Sky” by Alexi Murdoch? I heard it the other day over the end of the latest episode of Ugly Betty, and I bought it on iTunes and I’ve been obsessed ever since. It is so going on my playlist for SSG3. Great lyrics, great syncopation… “In your love, my salvation lies, in your love, my salvation lies…”

PPS: Oh, I forgot! The Magic’s Child Giveaway! The winner is: DAWN. Dawn, email me at the address listed in the About Me box on the top right of this blog with you snail mail address to receive your prize.