Yup, I finally finished Chapter 17, and started my final chapter, which is flowing pretty well so far. My goal is to finish it this week, as I start a new job on Monday, and I know the first few weeks will be a little crazy.
For anyone looking for work, or needing to hire anyone, on a temporary basis or as a direct hire, I'm your girl, though, as I'm back in recruiting again, for Apple One in Cerritos. But no matter where you are, please contact me at jh@ukjanis.com, and I'll do my best to help. I'll have a new business e-mail shortly, and will post it for you all.
Also this week, I'm meeting with people who have an expertise that will add more depth and detail to Echoes of Great Spaces. For example, although I've done a lot of Internet research already, I'm interviewing a gentleman who remembers the Blitz of 1940 in London. My first chapter, before everyone dies (!), is set there, and I have no one in the family left who remembers that time.
I'm also interested in anyone who can give me guidance on geology, the oil industry, Oman, 1967-1972 in the San Francisco area or the music business, and Europe (anywhere) 1972-1974 in the music business. The e-mail above and your contact information will be enough, and you'll get your name in print in my acknowledgements page! Your recollections will get you fifteen seconds of fame! :)
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
My first day on the blog
Mostly, the reason for this blog is to talk about my creative life, and eventually open it up to conversations with other creatives, to discuss successes, hopes, angst, motivation - anything that can help and support us.
And here I am, wondering what to say that you, my reader, might find interesting. This week has been exciting: I start a new job soon, and that has given me a deadline to finish the first draft of Echoes of Great Spaces.
Tonight, I finished Chapter 17, so I have only one more chapter to go, and a week to finish it. Then it will be back to the drawing board to polish my masterpiece! Rewrites are such fun.
The Cabrillo Playhouse, the community theater where I paint the sets, has a new show opening this week: Lend Me a Tenor, a comedy. Yesterday I finished the shadow-lining of all the doors (5 of them, both sides, to make them look like panel doors). Much more fun than last weekend, when I did two coats on the ceiling and one on the stage floor. The trick is to organize your time so you don't end up watching paint dry. If you go there, look for my two small murals in the lobby hallway - the first I've ever done.
On Wednesdays, I go to a class on writing for publication. We have some fabulous beginning novelists there, and even the ones who are still struggling with the craft have something important to say. Our memoir writers are truly remarkable. Every time, I leave feeling upbeat and energized. Plus, I like heckling our teacher!
And here I am, wondering what to say that you, my reader, might find interesting. This week has been exciting: I start a new job soon, and that has given me a deadline to finish the first draft of Echoes of Great Spaces.
Tonight, I finished Chapter 17, so I have only one more chapter to go, and a week to finish it. Then it will be back to the drawing board to polish my masterpiece! Rewrites are such fun.
The Cabrillo Playhouse, the community theater where I paint the sets, has a new show opening this week: Lend Me a Tenor, a comedy. Yesterday I finished the shadow-lining of all the doors (5 of them, both sides, to make them look like panel doors). Much more fun than last weekend, when I did two coats on the ceiling and one on the stage floor. The trick is to organize your time so you don't end up watching paint dry. If you go there, look for my two small murals in the lobby hallway - the first I've ever done.
On Wednesdays, I go to a class on writing for publication. We have some fabulous beginning novelists there, and even the ones who are still struggling with the craft have something important to say. Our memoir writers are truly remarkable. Every time, I leave feeling upbeat and energized. Plus, I like heckling our teacher!
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