Pledged is duly rechapterised, and I'm celebrating by … starting another project straight away.
Yeah, it's not particularly smart, there's this little thing called downtime which I hear is really effective in guarding against burnout… but this project (untitled, like all my new projects, which makes blogging about them tricksome at best) is a short story, and contracted, so I kinda hafta start it now. If I want to, you know, eat. No biggie.
I also have one (contracted) novel outline, one short story collection critique, and one (uncontracted) (for now) novel outline that needs doing sooner rather than later. It's a good thing I don't have a dayjob at the moment. When I quit the baby mines, everyone was saying things like, "Oh, wow! Two months off work. Think of all the sleeping in you'll be able to do!" I always smiled and nodded, but in my head I was replying, "Actually, I was thinking if I got up early every day, I'd be able to squeeze in even more writing!"
It's a sickness. Really.
Here, to distract you, have some links:
- National Geographic's Best News Photos of 2008
- National Geographic's Best Science Stories — which includes real Rodents Of Unusual Size
- The Year's Weirdest Animals — and people ask writers where they get their ideas
2 thoughts on “nose to the grindstone”
I think, even if I had the time you have, I'd still struggle, and I'm not juggling nearly as many projects. I went straight from the shorts to the novel, and I have whiplash.
Ah, I'm all talk 😉
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