After passing 3000 words for day, I only want more. I want to finish my goddamn book. Get to my beach house, write more.. more… MORE. Publish everything independently and …. Stopping. See what I’m doing, with my wishlisting—
Jackie in 1st Grade now, and me just getting older and wishing. Starting new assignment, new story and creative direction in 9 days. Don’t sleep, I self-instruct and decree. Be more mad with your writings, more passion-purposed and wandering. That’s the only way to discover gems. I’ve told my students this for years, and have never followed the speaker’s specs.
I keep writing, thinking only of the book..books, everything I’ve ever written, what I wrote 5 years ago on blog— I look, and addresses of money tightness, needing coffee, no-wine nights…. I think to myself, “Has nothing fucking changed?” I’m changing it, by leaving the bloody industry and its all-too gawked-at poisons. Then I read about flash fiction, short fiction, something Mom has essentially demanded I do, for YEARS. So I still have more writing to do, do note. A short fiction piece, probably on Kelly, later.
For now… Do something. Keep moving. Quiet in house. Advantage in such, a tranquil intangible shape and voice coats my senses, all.
Starting the day
waiting on some appointment. While here, I figure write. Why not. Haven’t hit 3000 words in a while and I know that I have to write every chance I get if I’m to make that kind of progress, but that mark. Tired of thinking, tired of promissory statements to self and to readers of this blog. So I just act, start seriously on the Kelly novel. While getting ready this morning I thought about her, her last day in the ad office in the Marina, her drive back up to her new apartment in Santa Rosa, what she must be thinking, before her first day in the wine industry. She doesn’t know what to anticipate, if she should be nervous or not…
Tired of writing the same thing, and that’s what I feel I’ve been doing. I write where I am, what I’m doing, but that often is much of a repeat. So what do I do but go outside myself. To someone else. Another character. Writing has always just been something I’ve done with not much anxiety or holdup. But lately I’ve been held up. Why. Bored. I guess, no? Bored with the same workday, the same drive, the same sameness of everything around me. Thank the Craft for this new job, new office, new best, new people. Even this office is something to write … me merely here for some physical or something for my new role, but others here for something more pressing, serious or even threatening. Reminds me of how delicate this all is. How fragile I am, my life is. Someone’s name called, but not mine. Goddamnit– Wait though, what am I worried about? My last day in the wine industry is in 9 day’s. NINE. If they fired me, lovely. That’d be something to write.. something new.
Pinot last night, Failla. Didn’t do much to me, really. Surely didn’t inspire me to write about it. It was just another wine. Now I’m certain, more than I was before, that the wine industry and world, possibly even wine itself to some extent, and I need break. I think of my babies and how they see me, how I want them to see me. Last time they visited me in that bloody tasting room I cringed, felt momentous lay embarrassed and queer, them seeing me pour and having to ask that new twigg-twit if I could spend a little time with them. Well that’s fine. And I’m DONE. And never going back. This new “job” will be my last ever. Same feeling as going into your senior year of high school.
Ugh…. when will they call my name? Hate waiting. In a waiting room. Not where I want to be. But I’m here. May as well make use of the writer’s time and write. Right? Another name called. Guy two seats down from me. Will surely be late to winery. Oh well. Relieved I can afford that feeling. And I can. Last step in this whole pre-first day around-tower circle.
Clifford….
NO! Mike!
8/14/18
Learning that in any business
the ones working, I mean REALLY working, must be acknowledged, at the very least. Appreciate them, fully and loudly, consistently.
Especially in wine’s business and “industry”.
Stare
On my break,
time self intake.
A self-take, break from all
negative wakes.
Some random Cabernet
I bought off a winemaker based in Livermore. Might be my only glass, being so tired from yesterday’s event and all the speaking today. Just swore to self that this sitting would be the one that does something. What. What? I ask the Cab. I provoke one sip and it doesn’t answer. So I’m done for the night. Clocking out. Not sure I deserve to.
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