Yesterday was  a long day, but when I returned from my last guest speaker dinner for work for the foreseeable future, I settled in to write in my journal notebook for an hour.  Within minutes, I have to say I was thrilled.  Ideas came pouring onto the page.  Backstory, characterization, ideas for threads in the middle of the book (where I’ve been stuck) — six handwritten pages worth.  The only bad news?  I didn’t write any of this in my Threads and Ties notebook.  Oh, well.  At least I wrote it!

Then, when I couldn’t sleep and I was watching the Denver Nuggets get pounded by the Los Angeles Clippers and knocked out in the first round of the NBA Playoffs, I pulled out the Jeff Herman book and began a more critical analysis of the 15-20 agents/agencies I marked as possible targets for my work.  I was able to mark one or two as definite possibilites.  Many more were maybes.  All need a more thorough study — some to see if they should even be on the list and others to see how they should rank.

All-in-all, the most exciting writing-related experience I’ve had in a long, long time.