Alison Pace

Now, Monthly!

No, no, I don't actually think it's July 17th, I'm just using the handy iCal image because today's post is of the scheduling variety.

So, the blog.  I've been thinking lately that it's not exactly what it used to be.  It used to be a bit more funny ha ha than it is presently. I think over the course of the past three years and three novels I might have run out of a bit of the zeal needed to post somewhat entertaining, or even just updatey, things on a regular basis.  And since it kind of bugs me when I go to blogs I like and there is never anything remotely new or interesting, I've decided that for the time being at least, the blog is going to switch over to a once-a-month format.  We can switch back once the blog area of my brain has had a nice rest.

I hope you'll check back around the first of every month to see what's new.  I promise to try very hard to have some things more exciting than: "this month, I worked on my novel..."

Merry, merry and happy, happy!

-A

Vermont

Has it been a month?

I can't believe it's really been a month.  Nor can I believe that even with it having been a month and all, I don't really have much to say.  Let's see:

I had about a week and a half there where I didn't even open up the Word program on my computer.  On one or two occasions, I napped.  I had trouble forming complete sentences.

I got a massage.  I saw a terrific play.  I saw a movie I didn't like at all.  I worked on a magazine piece I'm pitching but didn't get as far as I'd hoped.

I had a nice Thanksgiving and tremendously enjoyed the absence of the constant nagging feeling that I should really take the next two, three hours to work on the novel.

I got the first half of my revisions back. I felt overwhelmed.

I got up to 35 minutes of running on the treadmill, which is something for me.  I started my revisions, still felt overwhelmed.

Finally finished The Secret History.  Liked it.

I'm going to Vermont for the weekend.  Looking forward to it.  Carlie is too.

And my good friends Nancy Levine and Wilson the Pug have a new book out.  It's called The Ugly Pugling: Wilson The Pug In Love.  It's very charming and adorable and you can check it out here.

More soon.  Or soonish.  I think soonish is good.