"Being Away From Work Can Be Work"

Today is my first day back at my full time job after having been an A/V technician for the Hinman Dental show these past 3 days. My job over the last three days was to monitor the siminars in my room of which there were only 2 each day at 3 hours a piece. Not that bad unless of course you can't stay awake (which some of my fellow co-workers could not). We were not allowed to read magazines, books, or be on a laptop so trying to stay awake during a 3 hour siminar on various dental proceedures or emerging technologies can be pretty daunting. Luck for me that "writing" wasn't included in any of the things we "couldn't do" so I ended up getting a lot of writing done over the past three days.

I wrote the next chapter in my "A Simple Death" on-line novel of which I've neglected for the last four months, I also got the script for my next episode of DIARY OF A FILMMAKER series, I finished the outline for "Queen of the Vampires" (aka Twenty-Four), and I was able to get through over 20 pages of my photography book on the the making of HOUSE OF SECRETS done. I was very productive these last 3 days, so, I'm actually really glad I was able to change gears from the drone of Gwinnett for a few days.

The most substantial thing I got done over the 3 days was the HOUSE OF SECRETS book which I've now decided to be an off shoot of the DIARY OF A FILMMAKER series. The DIARY OF A FILMMAKER series is meant for me to have a way in which to showcase all the productions and projects I've done over the years and now this book will become a part of this ongoing series (as it will be the first book in the series). This book is intended as a "self publishing" venture of mine and I'm not necessarily looking for a publisher for it. It's a photography book in which all the photos will be ones I did on the set of the film. The book will alsoo include my on the set film diary as well as short essays on several key issues that faced the film's production.

On another note, I was also able to get back into the grove of writing "A Simple Death" an online novel that I started last year that I hope to finish this year. The experiment with this is to try and have a cohesive story at the end when I know almost nothing that will happen next (which is why this is one of the hardest things I am currently writing). Even though I am not fully satisfied with the current chapter (Chapter 8: At The Mountains of Madness Part 2) the action of forcing myself to write anything has propelled me to continue to write no matter what. Now that the chapter is online to read (at Story Smash - www.storysmash.com - under "A Simple Death") I feel confident that I can at least start to propell the story towards some type of ending.

These past few days have been very big for me in terms of writing and with 2 free days this week I will have plenty of time to sit down and finally get some things done.