Monday 06/12/2023
Have a bit of gout in my left big toe, limping all day. At 9am it was time for the Resident Association meeting. David G did his usual good job of running a hybrid zoom meeting. There were maybe 60 people in the auditorium, and he reported, 40 on zoom. In the open discussion period, David G vented about how so many people like to watch on zoom “in their jammies” instead of coming to the real meeting. This provoked quite a bit of discussion on email later in the day.
Drove down to FOPAL and did the usual post-sale triage, sending all the books in my section that had survived four sale days, to the bargain room.
Hacked a little at the novel. Geez, fiction is hard. I remember when I discovered that for the first time, about 1985, when I spent a year trying to be a professional fiction writer. As various people have said in various words, writing is easy, you just sit down at a keyboard and open a vein.
Codgerville 