autumn twilight

It’s 10:41 pm as I write this. As is often the case, I am alone in my bedroom, lit only by candles and the ambient light pollution that is inescapable here. Vivianne is sitting on the floor at the foot of the bed, alert to all possible foes. I can hear the dishwasher going in the kitchen, and the toilet flushing as the lesbian takes a late night pee-break in her much needed sleep.

I spent a couple hours sorting files today. On the floor of the living room. Real files. Actual paper. Much of it was important. Some of it went into the recycling bin, but the vast majority of it was things that I need to keep. Over half of it was thing I’ve written. I found myself struck by the sheer quantity of words that I’ve put to paper. The sheer volume of it is amazing. And none of it is really complete. It’s stories, and concepts. First pages of much longer works. Tiny vingettes of whatever was taking my interest at the moment. I estimate at least 400 hand-written pages, much of it never placed on electronic media. This doesn’t count any of my journals, or the lengthy diatribes I have written here or elsewhere on the net.

Suffice it to say, I am realizing that I’m rather prolific. Laurell K. Hamilton likes to write 8 pages a day. That’s her goal. I wonder if I could write that much, or that frequently.

Anyway, the whole point of this is that there is a lot of that work that I want a digital copy of. The originals will of course be put into storage. I have no plans to let them go. What that means though, is that I have a lot of typing and review to do. I’m okay with that. It gives me some busy work to do when I’m bored. Something that is meaningful. It will also give me a chance to practice Dvorak. If I commit to doing transcription in Dvorak I’ll learn to type at a reasonable pace much more quickly than I’ve been able to do so far. I’ve already lost most of the Dvorak I learned last year, but I truly do want to pick it back up.

I’m going to try and post pieces of what I transcribe to the blog, perhaps they will catch the fancy of someone who will contract me for a book based on a piece in progress or something. :) — or perhaps I’ll find that I’m happy being able to look at it online.

The eclipse is almost over now, and I need to read and get some sleep before tomorrow. Blessed full moon all.