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My agent, Merrilee, visited from New York today. It was basically a strategy meeting. Where we are; where we want to be. What I’m making; what I want to make. What I’ve written; what new stuff to write. She went over her end of the business and we went over ours. I told her new ideas I had, and plans for both Merry and Anita. It was very business-y and I always find that a little disturbing. I’m not sure why, but I find talking about my writing as if it were regular business unsettling. What I do is very much business, and I treat it that way, but it’s also creative and artistic and that is hard to fold into a business model. But in the end how else do you discuss business? So all that creative output reduced to numbers and timelines; marketing and strategy. It’s a weird way to spend a day of writing, because though I didn’t type a word on any book today, this was part of the writing process, and part of my job. Tomorrow I get back to actual putting words on paper, and let other people worry about the rest for a few days.