This is a video representing an author on the day before their deadline.
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Fun Fridays – February 13, 2026
The Steve Laube Agency
Helping to Change the World…Word by Word
The Steve Laube Agency
Helping to Change the World Word by Word
Juggling a deadline
and still living our life
seems to me to go just fine
so long as you don’t ask my wife
who will say that I run about
just like a scalded cat,
dash in circles, run and shout…
I surely don’t do THAT!
I calmly go about each task
with wisdom and aplomb,
and will do all that she might ask
in grace and manner calm…
“Hey, don’t you try to talk to me,
I’ve got a deadline, can’t you see!”
ohmygosh – that was amazing! And playing it on the bass gives more of the impression of a bumble bee than any other way I’ve heard it.
Very cool!
How hilarious. All this and the fellow is apparently and identical twin. Or not. He’s amazing.
I’m impressed he could be in two chairs at one time! LOL
Actually it’s more like six days after your deadline, after you’ve already requested and received a week extension.
Your video provides tension insight for non-fiction writers only. For a depiction of fiction author deadline insanity, try this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGX6dkVmDoI
All video musicians are literary agents.
This is the best!!! Thank you for sharing it with us!
LOLOLOL… Deadlines? What deadlines???
I move that fast all the time 😉 There are words to be written and worlds to create!