LUCY BURDETTE: I suspect many of you have been cleaning out closets and drawers for months since the lockdown commenced, but I have done none of that. I was determined to focus on finishing a big book project and I would not allow myself to get distracted. Cleaning and straightening would be a slippery slope--so much easier than writing and more satisfying because of the concrete results. These photos can't even begin to describe the disaster that had accumulated in my office...
Meanwhile, every time John and I watched someone interviewed on the news, we noticed everything in their background--what books were on their shelves, the crooked books on the shelves, the crooked art on the walls, the utter lack of art on the walls, the pets. It was so distracting!
But a week ago I finished the project. Yay! And now I will have some zoom meetings coming up for the launch of The Key Lime Crime. It was time to clear up my background. It took all day, and I didn't even touch the file drawers, but I threw away boxes and bags of old papers and drafts and just plain junk. And I also found some treasures.
Like this Sisters in Crime New England calendar signed by Janet Evanovich...L to R, Ruth McCarty, Janet E, Lucy B, Cathy Cairns...
And a poem written by my nephew about one of our former (fat) ginger cats, Chuck aka Chuck-E-Cheese aka Chuck Roast aka Chuck and a half.
T-bone and I were worn out, but oh my the results were so satisfying (if you point the camera in only that direction...)
So are you guys all straightened out, clean and organized? Or has your energy been focused in a different direction? Do you pay attention to what's in people's backgrounds?
