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Sometimes you just gotta eat the Klondike bar
Carpe Icecream!
posted by
majroj
on June 6, 2005 at 7:40 PM
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Majroj
No juice bars...and I'm one of those lactose will kill you people. I really, really wanted it though. I was sooooo sick that night. It was a really really good Klondike bar though...which crunchy stuff. Like you said before, it's the whole pain + mind over matter stuff. This time, the ice cream meant more to me.
posted by
terpgirl30
on June 5, 2005 at 1:30 PM
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And fun to boot.
Hope he had juice bars for the lactose challenged
posted by
majroj
on June 5, 2005 at 12:45 PM
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Majroj
Exactly!!,
That 401k is great, too. What a concept. Then something bigger happened. On Friday, the CEO of the company was running around with a bag of Klondike bars. I told him I was self employed for 20 years, and I wasn't as nice to me as he has been. It's kind of cool. It's more fodder for the writing, too. I love people watching, and most of my stuff is really character driven, so to be at a place that is seriously like Happy Time from Dead Like Me is just so much material.
posted by
terpgirl30
on June 5, 2005 at 10:38 AM
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Yeah, like medical benefits!
People need to understand that it isn't all "Daily Planet" and "Stephen King" out there.
posted by
majroj
on June 1, 2005 at 9:44 PM
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Majroj :)
You know, I had never planned on writing a book, let alone the great American novel thing. I was always content to be a journalist and more or less sending out --- what I think is---important info to those who need it. I was in an accident in '96, operated on in '97, and have had all sorts of periods of non-use of myself. I couldn't commit to deadlines because I can't deal with breaking a deadline. So, I started writing something else. All of a sudden, I had a mystery series mapped out. The first book I started is now the third in the series, and has about 15,000 words. The launch book is about 70,000 and needs to be cut ruthlessly.
You absolutely never know.
Maybe this will get people going more to round out that illusion of the great author. As an editor for a decade of 2 monthly newspapers in Maryland, I got all sorts of perks---so many I had to give the away. I went on 2 free cruises a year, Disney and all the trappings---and pretty much anywhere I wanted to travel, dinner theatres, theatre, restaurant stuff, free books and audios.
Then I had a monthly "hell week" where I pretty much stayed up around the clock, putting the paper together. I had to set an egg timer and sleep on my sofa, an hour at a time.
I'm editing books, as well as working on mine, and looking more freelance stuff, but I have also taken that 8-??? job. They all fill different needs of your life I guess.
Kim
posted by
terpgirl30
on June 1, 2005 at 9:22 AM
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You are sharing really nittgritty information. Thanks!
However, I think people here would rather be dilletantes (like me) and dream about sitting in a book-lined study wearing a tweed jacket with leather-patched sleeves (or the feminine equivalent) and tapping out deep bestsellers on a weekly basis.
Keep it up!
posted by
majroj
on June 1, 2005 at 8:01 AM
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