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I went back to my desk after lunch and was much more productive yesterday. Part of it was, I think, that Charles came over and went to lunch with Jon and I. One of my resolutions for the year is to see my friends more often. So far, I’ve done two social evenings with different friends, and lunch with Charles, and I’ve got phone calls into other friends with my day planner at hand. Social time with friends doesn’t just happen with a schedule as full as ours. You’ve got to plan your fun as seriously as you plan your work, or all you get done is work.
But the lunch helped bring me back to my desk refreshed. I still didn’t want to work on the Merry book, or any book yesterday. Not sure why, oh yeah, that whole flying thing coming up. Anyway, I made myself a bargain. Two pages, just two pages, even a crappy two pages, on SWALLOWING DARKNESS and at the end of two pages, if I still felt uninspired I’d quit for the day. But a funny thing happened somewhere in those first pages, my muse and I got up some speed. I ended with five pages for the day. One page more than my official minimum. Very cool.
At the end of those pages, I was tired, and I was done for the day, but progress had been made. I was very happy with that.