Michelle's corner

Well, the weekend certainly didn't go as intended. Nothing that I had planned, worked out. Deadlines went whooshing by and the only progress I made was cleaning and archiving five of my Alan Parsons Project LPs.

Even the graphic artist who is working on the cover has been silent.

Back in 2010 the increase in impatience was recognised - http://www.npr.org/2010/12/06/131565694/impatient-nation-i-can-t-wait-for-you-to-read-this - and in 2014 it was shown that we were getting worse - http://betanews.com/2014/01/29/come-on-technology-makes-us-more-impatient/ - but patience is more than a virtue. A study this year says that patient people may actually live longer - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12168827/Impatient-people-may-be-ageing-faster-scientists-suspect.html

As you can probably tell, even though I'm going to be paying for the artwork, I haven't yet sent an e-mail to the artist. You can't rush art. Real inspiration doesn't start at 9 and finish at 5:30. It's a fickle thing that visits at its whim.

A couple of years ago, George R.R.Martin had a few not-so-choice words to say to an interviewer who questioned him as to his health and whether he'd be around to fnish Game Of Thrones - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/10/game-of-thrones-george-rr-martin-rebuffs-fretting-fans-finger-f-word - Some people gave him grief for watching football rather than slaving away at his keyboard. But that's what we've become. A population fed on trailers of the next thing we must see, and flashy adverts of stuff we absolutely HAVE to own. And we have to own it NOW.

So timescales have slipped... so I might not get the latest book to the editor before I spend two weeks shackled to a training room in London, and then have to devote myself to shadowing the person I'm taking over from... who, actually, has been sat in my seat for the last three and a half years... but... yeah, if it involves me, you can bet your sweet arse it's complicated!

It's now likely to be an extra six weeks before I get the script to the editor. I had wanted to get it done before the chaos starts, but that's just the way the cookie crumbles... and no matter how they try, no one has come up with a recipie for a stronger cookie. :-D