Spent the day in San Francisco and had dinner in a small Italian restaurant in Mission. Been here a number of times over the years. Never see enough, though. I spent two hours in a coffee shop working on MNW while Janis shopped with her brother. It always surprises me how time stops (or flies?) when I’m writing. It’s all consuming. I love it. And once again I will say it: I’m nearly done. Nearly. The revision is more than 3/4 complete. I may go over the first half of the novel again before turning it in to Michelle. I think I did a better job in the second half of revising, partly because I was able to squeeze out longer blocks of time to work on it. I finally have convinced my part-time work at Bowdoin, to cut my hours down. I need to remind myself that I’m retired, and my objective in retirement was to write!
Stacia, Tim, Bo, and Robbie are on their own schedule, while we are staying at Jody’s house in Concord. Nice weather but surprisingly Maine-ish. Cool and breezy and foggy in SanFran today. Couldn’t find my way into this blog this morning, for the life of me I couldn’t get the password correct. I don’t use it enough to recall it (which is telling me something) and I have it written down back home in Maine, which does me no good out here. I texted Maya to get it from her, but she texted back that she was in the same circumstance … only she’s in Vermont. Sooo…
Hey… book recommendation: Tinkers by Paul Harding. A Pulitzer Prize novel (2009).
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