21 February 2006

On hold

I complained to a friend recently that he rarely communicated any more, and he responded that it was all right for me because as a professional writer communication comes easily to me. But as I said to him (at greater length), since I spend most of my working hours writing (whether that's text for publication or endless administrative emails), and since my working hours are every hour at any time of the day on any day of the week when I'm not doing something else specific, the last thing I want to do when I have any spare time is write. And as with this blog, which is dashed off when I have a moment (and I have something to say), no one had better expect anything polished.

I want to grouse about stupid PR agencies that don't deserve the title, and about the single worst butchery of a piece of mine I've seen for years including some of the mostly utterly pointless, ignorant, and error-introducing editing I've seen since Frommer's sub-eds got hold of Frommer's China, or, worse, the revised edition of Frommer's China The 50 Most Memorable Trips which I still shudder to think about.

But right now, in between potty-training a three-year-old, reading stories and otherwise entertaining him, staying up until the early hours of the morning each day working on everything from a brief biography of Yuan Shikai to a review of the China Railway Museum, and with three feature deadlines on the horizon, all this will have to wait. I've just put my fitness club membership on hold for a month, and I'm cancelling my Chinese lesson.

Life is on hold. But watch this space.
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