Rush Hour

I have been spending my days watching the World Cup (Spain passed to the semi-finals- hurrah! and Argentina and Brazil are on their way home), climbing and mountaineering, and….putzing around. Actually, I’ve been working, too. Every week I’m on the air with my radio show, RMC Unlimited, I’m preparing my new compilation (number 10), and I’m editing a lot of videos that Ezio and I have been filming in the mountains. However, what I should be doing is finding a literary agent for my first two novels and thinking about writing my third novel. I have been very lazy in that sense. Finding an agent is very tedious, no, let me correct that; what is tedious is preparing a synopsis of my work. That is the first step and I just can’t seem to get on it. Writing my new novel will be exciting, as writing always is….so why don’t I begin? Because once you start, you have to write every single day until you finish. There is no other way to write a decent novel, as far as I am concerned. You get on a roll that you can’t get off until the job is completed. I’m just waiting for the green light.

Congratulations to Oh Eun-Sun! The first woman to climb all 8000 meter mountains. I’m very happy for her. Go girl! Oriental women power! (I’m writing from my Blackberry so I can’t upload her photo. Will do it tomorrow when I get back home.)