Saturday, January 27, 2007

Snow, dig. Snow, snow, dig. Snow, snow, snow, sigh.

It never stops! We're all going crazy! Send help! Or whiskey, at any rate.

Yesterday, I again spent my lunch time chipping and hacking and shoveling, taking advantage of warm weather (above freezing, anyway). I managed to break down and shovel away part of the ice wall created at the end of the driveway by the snow plows. Dug my car partly free, although I discovered that the wheels are trapped in fairly solid ice. I was hoping that the forecast - another installment of the regular weekly blizzard - would be wrong and the exposed ice would melt some more, or at least would soften a bit and lose some of its grip on the concrete underneath.

Nope. Snowing again, cold again. Self-pity again.

But at least I'm continuing to work away at Time and the Soldier. The finish line keeps receding, but I know it's really there and I'll reach it. I just don't know when.

Or what will happen when I do. But one must never think of that. Ya gotta keep focused on the book. At that, ya gotta keep focused on the part of the book you're currently working on. That's the key, and I know that, and I have to keep reminding myself of that.

4 comments:

Chris said...

Focus is tricky, methinks. Too wide, and it's easy to get spooked, and too narrow leaves you endlessly tweaking a dodgy sentence like Sisyphus and his rock. If ever I could stay in that blissful writerly in-between, I could finish a book in six weeks flat, in rough, at least.

Man, you guys are getting hammered with snow this year. All we've got now is all-numbing cold. Seriously, it hurts to leave the house right now...

Lahdeedah said...

You know,

I keep wanting to hurry up and get to Colorado, but now, maybe I can wait til after the snow melts....

It's hard to stay focused writing. I do the numbers and think, aha, I can write a book in six months...

ha ha hah ha

I could, if I could just focus...

David said...

Chris,

Sisyphus is a great metaphor for that.

The snow is coming back, and the cold weather didn't quite leave, this time. My car is still almost axle-deep in ice. I shudder to think of what that's doing to it.

This isn't Colorado! Someone stole my state!

David said...

lahdeedah,

You may have to wait till spring. I heard of a new long-range forecast that says our current weather will be with us till March or April, or something like that. Aargh!