Things I’ll Do When I Finish Writing This Book: A List
Dorky confession: Every time I think of something I will do when I finish writing this book, I add it to a ‘note’ I’ve got going on my iPhone.
Most of the things I’ve missed this year are humble. I miss reading things that aren’t related to my topic. Oppressive lockdown from fiction! l miss being able to hang out with people without the nagging sense that my project is waiting in the next room, tapping its impatient foot. Most of all, I miss the feeling of having an empty space in my mind where the passing spore of some new interest could catch and grow.
That’s all going to change soon. There is lots still to be done but the biggest deadline is so close now I think I can almost see past it, into the world of petty pleasures that I need to believe awaits…
Things I’ll Do When I Finish Writing This Book
1. Start a real writer’s notebook, per Joan Didion
2. Read A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
3. Sleep unrestrainedly
4. Get your new dress altered
5. Train up to running 10 miles
6. Get one of those horrible foam noodles and actually do the I.T. band thing
7. Perform a headstand, sans wall
8. Buy new glasses
9. Go see a movie in a movie theater
10. Cook!
11. Read Freedom
12. Obtain new music
13. Read Infinite Jest
14. Read the King James Bible
15. Reunite with old friends
16. Figure out how to use post-1999 gym equipment
17. Buy proper inside-the-ear headphones so you stop drenching your beloved Sennheisers while working out
18. Fall asleep w/o thinking about the progression of your chapters
19. Spend time doing nothing
20. Start paying attention to the news again
21. Enjoy summer in New York
22. Enjoy summer in California
23. Enjoy summer anyplace else you can get to
24. Blog more
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