And Jane has given me a one dime advance on a story. \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n
I’ve been very oddly stymied during Nationals. I never have trouble writing. But I’d just finished a book, and Nationals happened, major distraction, and for once, I just couldn’t get my head together. I’d decided to write a story, shortish, just for CC, and it wasn’t happening. I stayed home yesterday and finally got a start on it.<\/p>\n
Then Jane asked, last night, “When’s the last time you didn’t write to contract?”<\/p>\n
Well, since about 1976, honestly.<\/p>\n
She said she’d give me a nickle advance, and get moving.<\/p>\n
This morning she handed me a whole dime and said she was doubling my advance. So I’d better get at it, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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