Trying very hard to concentrate on my editing work (two WWII books–I’m in heaven!) but while sending someone a link to my book this morning I found out my book has once again been marked down on Amazon to a decent price. So naturally I tried to buy the remaining copies and more. It won’t let me. I successfully ordered one. It still says one is available. It can be found in other places, too, like any bookstore or a number of websites, but the Amazon price can’t be beat.

In the midst of discovering that Amazon had it at a good price, I also discovered that it’s popular in the “museum” and “art” categories. How nice! I guess that’s a perk to writing a travel book that isn’t a travel book. Of course the downside is going into a bookstore and finding it in the “outdoor sports” section. Huh?

And despite all the struggles I had first time around, I’m working on another one . . . some things are out of our control, I guess.

This just came to me, so it’s not thoroughly thought out, but if only someone could figure out how to make “time.” I put that in quotation marks so that no one would think I was talking about “making time,” which is completely different than what I mean. My last blog entry was Monday. This is Friday. What happened to my week?

I finished an editing job. I (almost) finished an indexing job. I wrote a press release as a writing test for a full-time job (fingers are crossed). I took my mother to visit relatives and I’m still feeling the effects of a long day behind the wheel. I cooked dinner. I did not clean house (but that’s on the agenda for as soon as the thunderstorm that’s coming chases me off the computer). I talked to my sister. Again and Again.

And even with that list, there’s another list of What I Didn’t Get Done. That will get tacked on to my weekend list, which already had plenty on it.

And before I know it, it’ll be next week and I’ll have to kick party prep into overdrive while juggling another day with my mother and full-time editorial work. So if someone knows how to make time, please pass the instructions on to me. I need a little.

I am a writer and an editor. The former gets a lot of attention, questions, and praise when I mention it (and I have only recently begun to self-identify that way). The latter gets “Oh, you read all day?” and then either envy or revulsion, depending on who is saying it.

Today one of my editor friends (and I have many and they are witty and interesting and fun) sent me the link below. I’m going to share it with the rest of them. Editors, this one’s for you!

 http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2007/07/24/editing/