And by that I mean two chapters to the editrix, zip-bang, one yesterday and one today. Two chapters I feel pretty good about, and so close to each other, too! Usually I take a week to fuck around and then cram during the last week, but here it is Tuesday and I've got my proper two chapter allotment completed. Wrote the second one this evening with Goldfrapp's new album on the Grados wrapped about my head. Goldfrapp's really good for this project: sexy and electronic and full of future dances, just like the book (is intended to be).Right now on the Dumpster TV1 I have this excellent Led Zeppelin thing: five hours of concert footage, spanning 1970 to 1979, remastered, with excellent video quality. I'm only three songs into it and already I know that it rocks. I've put on my tight jeans. No, not those, my really tight jeans.
Every so often a groove happens. You'll know it when it does, because of that in-tha-slot magic that happens, the way words track 'round corners and zoom through the straightaways, the feel of how the metaphors glide slick and fast and the imagery pops and buzzes in technicolor. It just feels different. Feels good.
I've found that the important thing about catching a groove and nurturing its energy is to know when to stop. Right now I feel like I could move on through chapter nine, but I'm not going to. I know what needs to happen in those 2,000 words, but I'm just going to tuck all that energy away and watch Jimmy Page freak the fuck out with a bow on his Gibson.
Maybe I'll write the opening sentence, if a good one wallops me on the back of the head.
Otherwise...I'ma chill.
1What is this Dumpster TV, you ask? The Dumpster TV, I answer, is a 42" plasma television that someone left by the dumpster outside of my apartment. I tinker with things, even when they're broken, so I hauled it upstairs for a good tinkerin'. I ended up diagnosing what was wrong with it, bought the part off of eBay, and fixed it. So now I have a fabulous 42" plasma television to watch Led Zeppelin on that cost me $136. Oh, and $24 for a replacement remote, because apparently they didn't throw that away.
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