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anthimeriaThough I will definitely save the good news for last. I like ending on high notes.
Stress=my RL job is still with the crazy. I got promoted a while ago, in the midst of my department being very shorthanded, and thus got off to a rocky start. Since I'm sort of built to begin as I mean to go on, things have continued to be rocky, even though objectively they have improved. I've been reading a lot of fanfic and sleeping a lot and not much else. Which is depressing in and of itself, which leads to more . . . you get the idea.
Not much writing has gotten done. I was hoping my new process--writing Horizons in a very different way than I usually write novels--would help. Because writing always helps! This is a truth of my existence. (And might explain this blog.) However, mostly what my attempt at a new process has shone me is that it doesn't work. I've been "working" on Horizons for about two months, and have written less than 10k words. I'm pretty sure I wrote two or three times that when I started The Novel, Skywatch, and even Sanctuary. I might be annoyed with my current involved, long editing process, but I'll never get to the editing process if I never finish writing the first draft!
Thus, I am devoting the month of May (and what little remains of April) to short story writing. I'm working on possible submissions for two themed anthologies, one due May 10th and the other June 1st. I also volunteered to write a short-story-to-order for my work's charity auction, so we'll see what happens with that.
And then--the good news!--I am going to WisCon again!!! WisCon is Memorial Day weekend (May 25-28 for non-States folks), and should cap off my month of crazy writing with a bang.
Then . . . well, we'll see. I need to buckle down and finish putting together submission packets for Skywatch so I can send it out to agents (I've been doing this since January, on and off), I need to sit down with Horizons and beat an outline into shape so I can give it another try, and I need to start getting more serious about Moxie. I may have spent more hours lately doing research and worldbuilding for Moxie than I have writing Horizons, so that should tell me something.
Stress=my RL job is still with the crazy. I got promoted a while ago, in the midst of my department being very shorthanded, and thus got off to a rocky start. Since I'm sort of built to begin as I mean to go on, things have continued to be rocky, even though objectively they have improved. I've been reading a lot of fanfic and sleeping a lot and not much else. Which is depressing in and of itself, which leads to more . . . you get the idea.
Not much writing has gotten done. I was hoping my new process--writing Horizons in a very different way than I usually write novels--would help. Because writing always helps! This is a truth of my existence. (And might explain this blog.) However, mostly what my attempt at a new process has shone me is that it doesn't work. I've been "working" on Horizons for about two months, and have written less than 10k words. I'm pretty sure I wrote two or three times that when I started The Novel, Skywatch, and even Sanctuary. I might be annoyed with my current involved, long editing process, but I'll never get to the editing process if I never finish writing the first draft!
Thus, I am devoting the month of May (and what little remains of April) to short story writing. I'm working on possible submissions for two themed anthologies, one due May 10th and the other June 1st. I also volunteered to write a short-story-to-order for my work's charity auction, so we'll see what happens with that.
And then--the good news!--I am going to WisCon again!!! WisCon is Memorial Day weekend (May 25-28 for non-States folks), and should cap off my month of crazy writing with a bang.
Then . . . well, we'll see. I need to buckle down and finish putting together submission packets for Skywatch so I can send it out to agents (I've been doing this since January, on and off), I need to sit down with Horizons and beat an outline into shape so I can give it another try, and I need to start getting more serious about Moxie. I may have spent more hours lately doing research and worldbuilding for Moxie than I have writing Horizons, so that should tell me something.