¦ dialling in from workstation ¦
13:01 GMT, Monday 21st July, 2008. Bright sunny day outside. Breezey, easy, happy mind state inside. I did about 4,000 words this weekend: quite a relaxed pace, although I did turn up at Hagen's place Sunday afternoon barely able to string a verbal sentence together. I sat in his garden for a couple hours, nursing a can of beer, staring up at the big fluffy white clouds gliding across the blue sky... slipping instinctively into thoughts about the book. Hagen was cool with it though.
I can see the end of this novel clearly in my field of vision, but I refuse to rush. Another week, or 10 days, and I should be done.
Friday night saw Jo, Sonja and I meshing with new people: Sophie B (from work) and her friend Lisa. It was a great night: easy conversations covering diverse subjects. Lisa has had 10 books published through traditional publishers, but wanted to meet me to discuss LULU and the print on demand revolution. In fact, meeting Lisa has revealed horror stories from the world of tradional publishing that has made me doubly confident in the decision I took in going the LULU route. The LULU model is the future of book publisher for readers who don't want material that's been dumbed-down for the lowest common denominator of intelligence, and for authors who don't want to have thier creative spirits dilluted, and who want to make a decent profit for their work.
A new social fabric is knitting together around work people: Ben C, Dan R, Lyndsey M, and Jo SKel, although I'm gutted the latter two are leaving the company soon: very cool people, a pleasure to know and share time with.
Mum continues with her chemotherapy, and maintains a majority of days in high-spirits. So far, so good. My sparkly friend Jess, in Toronto, used thoughts about my mum's situation to push her through the pain of the final 3 Km's of a 24 KM run this weekend... but in reciprocal fashion, Jess passed on her running team's motto to my mum, which she found deeply inspirational and positive.
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