Phew!

Well, I survived my day as the guest blogger on The Debutantes Ball!  Gasp…That was a LOT of questions.  I didn’t know what to expect.  I figured, yeah, sure, check back once or twice during the day.  Maybe there will be a question, maybe not.  I made Don promise that if there were no questions or comments that he would write one so that the debutantes wouldn’t be disappointed. 

Well, Don didn’t have to write one! 

There were so many interesting questions and comments.  I found myself talking about a wide variety of topics.  The problem was, no sooner did I answer one question when several more had popped up.  There was one point in the middle of the day where I started feeling panicky.  Like I wasn’t going to get to them all.  The questions were just going to keep pouring in until I drowned in them.  But I didn’t want to walk away from it, not answer because the people who took the trouble and time to write in might feel a little disappointed if I didn’t respond.  It was a bit of a challenge, because I had to work on my manuscript as well!  But I couldn’t go into my writing room for one long straight hunk because I’d feel the weight of the comments responsibility calling me.  I had to break my manuscript writing time into chunks.  I managed to get my pages done (thank goodness!) and keep up with the comments section, but I wasn’t able to accomplish anything else.  Towards the end of the day, my hands were pretty tired and my nose was buried in the dictionary because when I get tired, my ability to spell flies out of the window and my entire answer was underlined in red.  And I hate having to dig things up in the dictionary, because the reason you have to look the word up is because you can’t spell it.  And if you can’t spell it…how are you expected to look it up?! 

So, although I had fun, and enjoyed meeting my many readers on-line, I think I’m going to hold off on putting a Comments section on my website.  Otherwise I won’t have time for the rest of my life.  All the things I enjoy so much, cooking tasty treats, cuddling with my husband, going for a walk, romping with Molly, talking with my boys, my daughter, my friends, writing to them, thinking about life, watching the cloud formations, listening to the grass grow, reading and so on.

Thank you to everybody who wrote in.  It made for a hectic, but very exciting day!  xo

Posted by Meg Tilly on Friday, December 07, 2007 in Chewing the Fat