Sitting on my buts

Found a great article at Holly Lisle's site last night that will help tremendously through the revision process. Oddly enough, what she describes is what I was already doing, she's just much more organized with her thoughts than I was, and mentions a few things I hadn't thought of. So I've printed off the article and have it sitting next to the printed draft.

But...

I have no spiral notebook.  Now, before you get all "what the heck do you need a sprial notebook for?" let me tell you - the spiral notebook is important. Holly Lisle says so. Except I already knew that, because my spiral notebook is VITAL in my day-to-day work routine.  I don't use a phone message pad. I don't use a PDA. My spiral notebook sits on my desk, and in it I record every phone message (both taken and left), phone numbers, client leads, query ideas, tasks I must attend to SOON, and just about everything else you can imagine. This works well, because nine months from now when I'm trying to recall a conversation with a client, I can flip through my spiral notebooks (I keep them when they're full) and tell you instantly that I spoke to Jane Smith on July 15, and she said such and such, and I told her this and that.

And on Friday, I filled up the last page in my current spiral notebook. And no one got me one for Christmas (like scented candles, a spiral notebook has become a standard gift at Christmas, Mother's Day and my birthday, someone ALWAYS gets me one. Except this Christmas) so I have to get a new one.  And even though I remembered FINALLY to pick up a new shower curtain liner while I was out, I forgot the spiral notebook.

I could still probably be revising now, because even though I'm experiencing the Great Spiral Notebook Shortage of 2005, I still have tons of notepads and paper.

But...

It's dark in the living room. You may remember the power outage issue we're having, and with the painting, the lamp we were using in the living room has been moved to add more light in the bedroom during the painting. And there's no point in reminding me that Dickens somehow managed to write without light, or even electricity, because Dickens I ain't.  I need light, and lots of it, and tomorrow is another day.

My office has plenty of light, and I could revise in here. There is a large expanse of tabletop just waiting for me to spread out my printed draft and my spiral notebook paper and notepads. And the chair is comfy.

But...

I was really thinking that revising in a different space than the one I wrote in would be good. Change of scenery, different perspective, yada yada.

I could revise in my room, there's light there, and it's a change of scenery.

But...

There's a child sleeping in my bed. See previous post about heap of stuff in all other rooms of the house/painting/etc. And I wouldn't want to wake her up.

So, essentially, tomorrow I will go buy MANY spiral notebooks, and possibly a lamp, and also probably the painting will get finished. For tonight, I'm just going to blog, and try not to think about the snowstorm that apparently is headed our way. Because if we get ten inches of snow on the first of March, I may just have to go Groundhog hunting.

Comments

[zee]

Oh, spiral notebooks are of the essence! :o)

[Lizzie]

I've got a little spiral notebook...weeee!