Mixed in with all these writing tasks, I've got a field riddled with tansy ragweed that has to get cleaned up before the flowers go to seed. Sometimes it feels like an uphill task, I mean, for metaphorical reasons, not just because the field is on a hill. Our neighbors have a field full of tansy ragweed too. They usually get rid of it early and we're the ones at the eleventh hour pulling things up, shoving the ones gone to seed already into big plastic bags. Not this year. We're a little ahead of our usual MO, they're way behind.
It's not fruitless, though, just aggravating. Like the necessity of marketing--it'll never go away. Even if I manage to find an agent, I'll still have to send short stories out, write query letters, synopses and proposals, make phone calls, do business. Would I rather just write? Heck yeah. I'd rather just do my regular gardening too, instead of sweating out in the pasture pulling up stuff that shouldn't be there in the first place. But it's part of owning land, and marketing is part of writing. You just gotta do it.
On the plus side it's cooled down locally. Very pleasant writing weather, pleasant gardening weather especially in the early evening, when it's still light outside but the birds are trying out their night songs, and the moon is like a rosy pearl, and it's too bright for stars. That's my favorite time to be out, as long as I remembered to spray on some bug juice.
It's still bright and warm outside now, but it feels like the perfect hour. Time to write.
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