daily artifact log: timcoalman: 2) creation, 4) housekeeping

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

2) creation, 4) housekeeping

(today) Finished editing chapter 12 of The Great Falling Away. One chapter remaining to complete, began writing in 12/1998, some dry stretches of not working on it reaching years. Printed the first 12 chapters and hand delivered to parents.
(last few days) slight file management and organization.

Daily Message to Mom - realizing mom is reading these frequently, if not daily, thought to write her a message each day. *I appreciate the random nature of my childhood adventures, loaded into vehicles and out on the road, stopping at caves, odd businesses, and corners of dead end places - talking, talking, and stories of who we were and who we are. Me in the back seat, listening. When reading these books, these are our stories.

DAILY ARTIFACT LOG - GOAL

My artifacts are not stillborn or arrested in early development so much by unresolved planning or structural defects but instead are slowly pinched off by small stoppers and momentum-less days. The creative effort not lost to hemorrhage but leached off by the routine everyday droplets. The late arriving echo audience hardly privy to the daily toil that piles the artifacts for a lifetime before their immediate awareness, appraisal, and acquisition. Deadlines aid the effort but are product-bound and necessarily presume an audience / patron / publisher / distributor / and such.