Coffee break

    I did the best/smartest thing ever last Saturday: I wrote BEFORE settling down to work at my paid employment. I filled about 6 pages of notebook and had a great time. I haven't set pen to paper since--it's Tuesday evening now--but it's amazing what a good frame of mind just that little outflowing has given me.
    It's the new year now. Holidays are over, and clients are eager to get back into the swing, which means that we must also. Much less time for drawing and writing and reading instructions for new techniques.
    I'm taking a little break now. We just watched episode 6 of the BBC adaptation of Susannah Clarke's Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell during dinner. The word wow does not begin to do justice to this production or to the story itself. The book is so elaborate, like layers and layers of embroidery, each layer hiding then revealing the next. The movie manages to portray the layers--the light, the shadows...the magic--in all their texture and hue.
    Quite inspiring. Though I never hope to achieve such complexity in my own writing.
    And now--back to work.