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1. Muck out my study.
However, as I currently have to negotiate an assault course just to reach my desk I think the time has come for my annual tidy-up.
If I may be so bold as to make a suggestion...why not use an assult team? *Ottery is Mr. Clean, Commando Leader of an elite assault force of housekeepers and butlers bent on world cleanliness* Mwahahahahahaha *turns to Teddy* and then we can scribble in her notebooks and she'll have to write the Ron/Hermione Wedding Mwaahahahahahahahaha Quote:
2. Do not lose any more notebooks.
Now that I have said notebook beside me on this desk, however, I see that it contains few useful nuggets amid a lot of complete dross. Nevertheless, the stress I endured while believing it to be the notebook equivalent of the Holy Grail was enough to remind me that I must take better care of my working materials.
I know that feeling...LOL but my problem is I have too many notebooks...LOL Quote:
3. Be ruthless about protecting writing days, ie, do not cave in to endless requests to have 'essential' and 'long overdue' meetings on those days. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg.
I'd just hire a bunch of crazed fans to play secretary, "Hold all my calls until book 7 is done." See if anybody tried to bother me then...Mwahahahahahaha *turns to Teddy* and then when we're taking dictation we could write our own version of book 7 Mwahahahahahahaha Quote:
4. Follow advice from critics on how to be a better writer.
Why? They're critics, not writers, what could they possibly know? *Ottery runs off to gather the Cleaning Crew and work on his resume to become secretary* Mwahahahahahaha, I think it's time to schedule a meeting with Mr. Grint...and fire Mr. Kloves...and I want to meet Ted Turner...and take over Hollywood...Mwahahahahahahahahaha, 2006 is going to be a busy year. Lissy, I'm putting you down as a reference.