and Carry A Briefcase.
Last week, I mentioned that I was finally finished writing the second in the Lambert Falls trilogy. Mostly, I wrote here at home but a good part of the book was written at my favorite coffee shop. And the diner. And the park. And anywhere I had to be and there was a wait (the doctor’s office and applying for my passport spring to mind immediately). Since I write everything long hand first, I can do this because I don’t have to lug my laptop around.
Something happened though, while I was relocating from one errand to the other, from one source of coffee to another ~ sometimes people believed I was actually an author and treated me as such; other times, people treated like a wanna-be with a notebook. Now, I’m sure there were several reasons for this but you know what one of the variables was? In all seriousness? When I walked in somewhere with everything crammed in my purse and under my arm, I was just another would-be writer with a notebook. When I walked in with my computer bag, I was treated better and with more respect.
The craziest part of this is that the computer bag cost me less than ten bucks, far less than my purse. Such a little thing; such a big diference in how I am treated ~ and how I feel about myself. Because when I walk into my favorite coffee shop, a bookclub or signing, or even the diner at three in the morning, it’s the computer bag that is the final detail that makes me look and feel like a sophisticated professional living a champagne life.
Only you and I need to know I’m doing it on a beer budget.
~ Pauline
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