this woman’s work

At least not safely or with grace so instead of hiding out in the basement while the babysitter is here, I’m hiding out in the big bedroom (what we call the master). In many ways this is a plus — sunlight as opposed to the gloomy office-area and ready access to a bathroom are both nice. Downside is the non-ergonomic bed set-up.

One of the things that came with the house is a quilting board. This is helping. It’s a wooden board with a ruler on it (36 inches across) and different colored strips of wood (dark then light). On the other side is a checkerboard (literal — like to play checkers on, not as a pattern) and what looks like backgammon. There’s a semi-circle cut out so that the board sits on your lap and your elbows rest on it. I don’t know if it really is a quilting board but I saw one on ebay and that’s what the description says. Anyway, it’s what I use for my laptop if I’m working on the bed or on the couch for more than a few minutes.

Also, I found a better quote from Writing for Story:

The truth is that writing is a very complex undertaking, analogous to conducting a military campaign. Things won’t simply fall into place because God is on your side. You have to plan for them, and there are far, far too many factors for you to keep them all straight without writing them down.

So far the book is pretty good although horribly dated. I wince everytime I read the word “monogoloid,” which he uses to talk about a student essay about Down’s syndrome. My book says the first Plume Printing was in 1994 and you think they could have gone in there and fixed that.

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