Not a Weekend Update Weekday Update

I'll admit, I've been slacking off the last few weeks. I've written in my journal, but somewhere in there I took a break from new words and artwork and hadn't picked anything up. I didn't even finish Inktober. [Granted, that was post-vacation and I got sidetracked by Day Job foolishness, so I'll let that one slide.] I had a few personal thoughts and issues about the trilogy, but I worked those out (thanks to queenoftheskies for the Twitter chat!), and I'm feeling better about it now.

How did this trip-up happen? Good question. Vacation distraction, submission rejection contemplation, other words that end in -ion, and other things I won't bother to get into here. I had to let my brain take a breather and catch up.

Time to get back on the horse.

The last few days I've been getting back up to speed. I'm picking up Two Thousand again and getting a few hundred new words a night again. The count is still low for my standards, but I'm determined. I think the issue here is that I need to remind myself--again--that first drafts are supposed to be crap. Or as kateelliott posted recently, "Don't think, just write." The first run is to get the story out. Worry about the details and the fixes later.

Anyhoo. Other than that, it's been a blur. Family visits, operas seen, dayjobbery, and possible jury duty next week. It's still busy with various things going on, but I'm back on track.

Onward and upward.