I’m straddling two writing projects and I feel like Short Round, pulled between parallel mine carts racing over a ravine of lava. Well, okay, that might be a bit much. My one Big Work is the implementation of the final edit of my book. With just thirty pages left, I can see the finish line. The other work is just notes so far. But it has such delicious promise. It’s been a while since I started something new, and this new idea sprang from the smallest of ideas, a joke really. Then during a midday jog it blossomed, replicated, subdivided, replicated again, and grew itself into a world.
Now I’m stuck between wanting to outline the new thing and finishing the old thing. I like both worlds I’ve created, and enjoy spending time in both. But I know the old one, and the new one…well, it is like a warm cinnamon bun just sitting there on the counter. Go on, take a bite. If I’m in the other room I still know it’s there, waiting for me, tempting with sugary fingers that float around the corner and tickle my nose, like you see in old Looney Tunes cartoons.
Mmm…new idea.
Writer, architect, father, husband.
Ooh, a book! What's it about?As an aside, I'm so excited to catch up with you and your various projects. I'm more of a LiveJournal person myself, but any interactive way for me to keep up with what family and friends are doing is cool with me.And (because I need to self-promote and drum up readers a bit, as I'm getting graded on it :P) I'd like to direct you over to my new blog. As opposed to my old knitting blog, which your wife kindly read a few times but probably thought dropped off the face of the planet. Because it kind of did…
Peter — It wants you to stop. Ignore the caressing whispers. You think you will be done after this last sprint but you won't be. You … won't be! That's why it'll work great to "finish," then indulgence the new temptation, then, when you tire of it and your face is slick with cinammon bun-oil, you'll be able to return to the original project with fresh eyes. Plus I want to read it!p.s. Hi Susannah!
Dear Short Round,I want to read it all! I also want the sticky cinnamon buns! Go for it! Hey Susannah.