Avi

word craft

blog

A glimpse as to how this writer spent his summer

hammockOn Sun­day I reread MS of book A, and made such changes as I thought productive.

On Mon­day morn­ing I worked on a new book B, which is due at Editor’s desk on Novem­ber 1.

On Mon­day after­noon, hav­ing received (via US post) final notes from Edi­tor on book A, I made the changes she request­ed. Read through the book anew and went to bed late. For bed­time read­ing read a book that per­tained to book B.

On Tues­day, I worked some more on book B, and then made some Span­ish lan­guage cor­rec­tions on book C, as sug­gest­ed by a pal who knows a lot more Span­ish than I do. I also spoke to an old writ­ing friend who asked me to read the man­u­script of her new book. Said yes.

On Wednes­day, I received the just arrived gal­leys of book D, and began to make such changes as I thought necessary.

Chat­ted (via phone) with new writer about claus­es in the con­tract she has been offered. She told me she had con­sult­ed with a cur­rent­ly famous author who told her “I nev­er read my contracts.”

Also checked the inter­net to read up on how to get rid of new­ly estab­lished fam­i­ly of raccoons.

4 thoughts on “A glimpse as to how this writer spent his summer”

  1. Rac­coons and skunks don’t like moth­balls. I have used suc­cess­ful­ly under my shed, but out in the open, not as effective

    Reply

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.