More agent emails

            Today I sent out five emails .... to:
Caroline Michel PFD
Laura McNeill PFD ... just realised this is a duplicate. No response last time.
Alison Bonami
Francesca Dymond at jennybrownassociates.com
Yasmin Standen.

            I also sent a reminder to Angus Macdonald about the Ecuador book. He didn't reply to the last reminder.

            Thank Christ that the holidays are over. This is really the time of year that I dislike the most, but thank God it's over now. On the 9th January last year I started the nine weeks retreat on the Holy Isle so it's now a year since I last had tobacco. This year I'd really like to stop drinking, but we'll see.

             I'm really looking forward to writing again. First of all, I start on the play. When I'm done with that, I'll try to develop the plot of the crime thriller and I think at first I'll try to write the dialogue. Basically, I'll do a screenplay and if the plot works, I write in the prose.

             For some reason I couldn't get a coloured background (where did that come from?) off the email to the agents. Wasted half an hour on failing to do that.

             I'm writing this on a laptop which I took down to Newington last week. I stopped working for several days. I was told it was knackered because I'd carried it around in sleep mode. Apparently, these machines can get broke by doing that. Where did it say that? Anyway, I plugged it in again yesterday before handing it in for repair and it came on fine. No reason for anything. I hate these machines. When I start writing prose again, I'm thinking I should go back to a typewriter.

             My camera still isn't downloading to the computer, so the photie is from almost two years ago and was taken in the Zen Mountain Monastery in the Catskills. How I'd love to be going on retreat right now!!!!