Well, I had a little bit of a rough day today. Thank goodness it's Friday, right? So, we got me some soulfood! Aka: chinese food. Albeit, americanized chinese food complete with MSGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG (well not anymore, but heck, so long as it tastes good.) So having that perfectly lovely diversion, I cloistered myself in the study and pulled up my most recent Borders "shortlist" which tells me all the 'what's what' about books these days. It's like the tabloids except for books! It also is only one page long and doesn't spread gossip (coincidence! I think NOT!). So, I pulled up a recliner and watched the "Borders Book Club" in which author Stephenie Meyer talks about her latest book "Eclipse" which, accroding to the Wall Street Journal is perparing to 'Eclipse' Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on the bestsellers list! OMW! Well, I couldn't listen to the whole interview because they kept on talking about the previous two books Twilight and New Moon and I actually want to read them now, but what she was saying , which was very interesting was not worry about publishing. Writing is the fun part. If you write then you are a writer. If you want to publish a book, then you are... well not. This strikes a direct contrast to another writer who I saw at the Tatter Cover a month or so ago. She said that she actually doesn't like writing, but already she's written twelve or so books and makes her living as a columnist. I guess it takes all kinds, doesn't it. What this woman and Stephenie Meyer say is very important, though. On the one hand, you shouldn't feel like your literary destiny should come to a halting stop just because you don't really want to write your book today. Books don't get done if you don't write them and writing them is work. On the other hand, there is no sense holing yourself up in your basement composing the great american novel when all you really want to do is go around the country and talk to people. For me what it meant was that I wanted to go back and read my story.

A lot of the time it seems that if you go into a chinese restaurant and ask for something particular in Chinese, they might have it in the back... I don't speak Chinese, so I wouldn't know, but a lot of restaurants have specials in Chinese, and I wonder if it's particular stuff they keep in the back that Americans obviously wouldn't eat.
» ikimashokie on 2007-08-11 02:17:18

I like it how you say that you "pulled up a recliner" hahaha.
» Zanzibar on 2007-08-11 07:16:34

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