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Sep. 27th, 2017 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeSlowly, slowly I am catching up on writing things. Although also faster than I expected to be. Turing Shrugged might actually get out on time as far as digital copies go, dead tree copy will take a while because it's taking me a while to get my ass moving and my mind coordinated enough to send a proof copy to the Editrix. I finished the train story on goddamn time! Just under the wire, but on time, which is to say I finished the structure of it and Editrix read it over and pronounced that I could fit some more characterization in, so I will give it an 8 hour rest or, well, more like 12 because capoeira, and then look it over and format it and submit it tomorrow eep.
Speaking of submissions, an opportunity to submit to a horror podcast crossed my feed and now while I have all of the enthusiasm I have none of the confidence in my ability to write good horror. Poop.
Okay, but no. If I'm very lucky and can get to the post office while there's still time I can get some more words written in the White Noise short story and then some more words written in Starlight and be all of the awesome. Bonus points if I get some Long Road edits in there. And. Aaaand at some point I'm going to have to go back over Malachy but that can probably wait. And I need to outline Nanonovel candidates but that can definitely wait. In Pen's case at least until I've looked over the last draft and read a few more mysteries. I wonder if Lehane has anything new.
Although my to-finish list is so long. SO LONG. I have to finish Cloud Roads by Martha Wells, I started that and it seems to be going well. I have to read Horizon by Fran Wilde whose first two books in the Bone Universe I devoured already. Highly recommend. After that it might be time for a reread of Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older so I can devour Shadowhouse Fall which I just got and after that maybe I get to alternate some trad mystery with whatever the sequel to Cloud Roads is, Six of Crows, etc etc. So much reading. And too little making time for it, although in my defense I've been sick and cranky and scattered and frustrated and semi-worried about a cat. Apparently needlessly worried.
I continue to discover that I am the princess on the mattresses on the pea, or something I'm not sure what. First the comforter was too itchy, then it was too hot for the other comforter and I grabbed a sheet and then I finally slept like a baby. BUt on the plus side I slept like a baby even if I had deeply uncomfortable dreams, and I should be able to replicate these conditions in the future so I can stop having nights of waking up and being awake way too long.
I have faint hopes of being able to sort out my office by the time Nanowrimo gets around. And then, you know, actually writing in my office. We'll see how well that goes.
Speaking of submissions, an opportunity to submit to a horror podcast crossed my feed and now while I have all of the enthusiasm I have none of the confidence in my ability to write good horror. Poop.
Okay, but no. If I'm very lucky and can get to the post office while there's still time I can get some more words written in the White Noise short story and then some more words written in Starlight and be all of the awesome. Bonus points if I get some Long Road edits in there. And. Aaaand at some point I'm going to have to go back over Malachy but that can probably wait. And I need to outline Nanonovel candidates but that can definitely wait. In Pen's case at least until I've looked over the last draft and read a few more mysteries. I wonder if Lehane has anything new.
Although my to-finish list is so long. SO LONG. I have to finish Cloud Roads by Martha Wells, I started that and it seems to be going well. I have to read Horizon by Fran Wilde whose first two books in the Bone Universe I devoured already. Highly recommend. After that it might be time for a reread of Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older so I can devour Shadowhouse Fall which I just got and after that maybe I get to alternate some trad mystery with whatever the sequel to Cloud Roads is, Six of Crows, etc etc. So much reading. And too little making time for it, although in my defense I've been sick and cranky and scattered and frustrated and semi-worried about a cat. Apparently needlessly worried.
I continue to discover that I am the princess on the mattresses on the pea, or something I'm not sure what. First the comforter was too itchy, then it was too hot for the other comforter and I grabbed a sheet and then I finally slept like a baby. BUt on the plus side I slept like a baby even if I had deeply uncomfortable dreams, and I should be able to replicate these conditions in the future so I can stop having nights of waking up and being awake way too long.
I have faint hopes of being able to sort out my office by the time Nanowrimo gets around. And then, you know, actually writing in my office. We'll see how well that goes.