the writing chronicles begin

so i've written six novels now and i'm still unclear as to how long it takes me to write one. it takes until the deadline, that's how long. i've recently finished a book and it's safely off to beloved agent where we'll look for a home for it (i'm in a publishing transition, at least, hoping it's "transitional"). seems changes are everywhere, me made to move when i don't want to, worrying sometimes, or just riding the wave. anyway, there are several ideas i keep working on, two are pretty much experiments with possibly no marketable value -- these are currently my favorite projects to work on. we'll see what happens there. i need a bit of focus, maybe, but a few months of non-writing-focus sounds nice too. with a big conference coming soon, the fog might burn off a bit. i love fog.

but, i thought i'd try to gauge how long it takes ME to write a novel (or to complete a writing experiment) by recording it here in my shiny new blog. i mean, it's not like i have a following or am here for any other purpose than no purpose at all...it's rather for me i think that's what Lisa Samson was trying to tell me).

so...chronicles of one writing life:
--about 6 hours working on promotion, learning html code, web stuff, email and general such stuff that had nothing to do with stories (and still didn't catch me up).
--that one sentence discovered while driving and wrote down, or rather half a sentence. i'm not putting it here, it's sleeping away for now.
--a quote that moved the gray matter tonight as it has before, but maybe now towards a story, could fit with experiment #1 (titled either 3AM or clockworks -- why am i giving titles to experiments?) "the people we’ve become, well they’ve never been the people who we are." quote from a matchbox twenty song. there's a lot there.
--returned to john gardner's on writers and writing

for the purposes and purposeless...grace to you, and good sleep.