Thursday, January 5, 2012

5 down, 399 to go

So I did a lot of writing yesterday, with a little cutting and pasting. Way more than 200 words. I wrote six letters yesterday. Five on Facebook and one snail mail letter. One of my friends in NC, Emily, (yes, sleight inappropriate crush) asked me to write her an actual letter. So I did. It was a bit challenging as it was "performing on command" and not written from inspiration. And I typed it, of course. I say "of course" because anyone who knows me well, knows that my handwritten communications are more than a bit challenging to decipher on the best of days. That is one reason. The second is because I like to keep a record of things I have written - even notes and letters. I think that is a pretty impressive first day.

None of the letters was scintillating. All were ok. I did put a soft sell in the ones that hadn't bought a copy of either book - fact is, most of my "friends" haven't bought copies of my books. Still don't understand that - but ya'll know that already. Anywho, each was certainly personalized. I am actually looking forward to getting to some of the more difficult letters, the ones where I basically tell them that I don't understand why we are friends on Facebook. I figure, if they want to be friends, they need to make an effort - if not, they can defriend me or I will defriend them - but after they get their letter.

I plan to get a few more done today - but many more done over the weekend and next week.

Oh, I was surprised to find that two copies of Bar Dreams had been sold in the past week at the Beautiful Beef and Brew! Yay!

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