tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27125272.post1894066397307115984..comments2024-03-28T11:09:00.899-05:00Comments on Candy's Blog: When Life Gets in the Way of Writingcs harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13708705800818667923noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27125272.post-639569030158480672007-04-30T14:38:00.000-05:002007-04-30T14:38:00.000-05:00All I can say is eek! Bask in the joy of those six...All I can say is eek! Bask in the joy of those six pages and hope that things are better this week!Farrah Rochonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13734081434172632431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27125272.post-37855207319027379062007-04-30T01:12:00.000-05:002007-04-30T01:12:00.000-05:00Life is good even when its bad. Six pages is grea...Life is good even when its bad. Six pages is great. This week will be better.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02744937536946299450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27125272.post-70139131820550696592007-04-29T16:20:00.000-05:002007-04-29T16:20:00.000-05:00My office door is seldom shut -- just when I play ...My office door is seldom shut -- just when I play music while I work which I think might disturb others, or when a noisy dot-matrix printer is in operation. (Does anyone other than me still use one of these?)<BR/>Nonetheless, I always feel guilty that I'm letting the writing life get in the way of Real Life. I look with despondency at the state of the gardens and various pieces of fading/failing paintwork. I tally the figures and realize to engage tradesmen would cost me far more than I could earn from fiction writing in the equivalent time involved.<BR/>That said, I would never take a laptop on holiday or walk out on a social occasion to produce the next thousand words. And yes, I curse silently but mightily when "emergencies" like car prangs interfere. A woman managed to sideswipe my wife's car in an otherwise empty parking lot a while back. The offender was that rare soul who had the decency to leave a note under a wiper blade and admit her liability. So it cost nothing . . . except the inconvenience of multiple phone calls to hard-to-reach insurance companies, several trips to repairers, alternative transport arrangements, etc, etc. I wouldn't like to put a figure on the time lost in pages.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27125272.post-73441742232389781082007-04-29T14:25:00.000-05:002007-04-29T14:25:00.000-05:00Hey, you still got six pages done. Some days, life...Hey, you still got six pages done. Some days, life intrudes and a small toe hold in the work is still a win.Steve Malleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17561234111786788616noreply@blogger.com