After a day off in the middle of last week, I came back to my desk on Friday, all ready to start writing. Only to find an email from Gallaudet University Press’s proof-reader, with the final proofs of the Afterword that I recently wrote for them, and a request for me to approve and return them… by that same day!
The deadline isn’t as unfair as it seems. I’d taken on that project while working for another organisation, and I’d carried out all the correspondence on that organisation’s email address. Since leaving the organisation, I’ve not been checking my mail regularly, and it was only when I did that I found the request.
Still, a deadline is a deadline, and proof-return deadlines are ones that I always try and meet. The task can be a bit frustrating–particularly if the proof reader hasn’t been kind–but in comparison to writing the actual piece it takes very little work, and the result is that the work is finally boxed up and shipped.
So, that was Friday taken care of.
Today was supposed to be the first day of really hitting the writing, so I’d normally be straight in as soon as I got back from dropping the kids at school, but road closures made me late, and a combination of mid-day meetings and practical jobs mean that today’s pretty much written off for focusing. So today is a day in which I will do business development, and not write, and let my elephant reassure me that a valid pause won’t derail the bigger plan.
The Garage of Books 