10. Work on one of those 67 other incomplete works in progress.
9. Take that long-delayed vacation to Tahiti. Or Ireland. Or anyplace so remote that you can’t access your email.
8. Learn a new language. (Works well with # 9.)
7. How about a new hobby? I hear shoe collections are very rewarding.
6. Call and reassure your family, friends, and relatives you haven’t fallen off the face of the earth.
5. Get a pet. Preferably something that’s gentle and affectionate. Like a hedgehog.
4. Reinvent you. Hair, nails, stomach by-pass, liposuction, boob job, and laser eye surgery. That way when your book becomes a best-seller, and you go out on tours to promote it, no one will recognize you from the photo on the back cover.
3. Cultivate a green thumb. Plants are your friends. They’ll also clean the stuffiness out of your work cubicle.
2. Reward yourself for all your hard work! Writing a book isn’t easy. Jump the gun a little bit and pretend you’ve gotten the contract. Better yet, start going from door-to-door and take orders for when it’s released!
1. Pray they accept it.
1 comment:
Hmmm, interesting advice.
And here I'm just wasting my time writing the NEXT book while waiting to hear on the contract.
I could be going to Ireland and gargling Gaelic!
(I speak about a dozen words of Scots and Irish Gaelic including one obscenity)
Ah well, back to the PTSD vet in love with the double amputee.
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