Nov. 17th, 2019

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Okay. Okay. So.

Usually about this time of year I'm running around like an idiot, trying to balance far too many projects, the Day Job, and Year End lists and everything else. Somehow I always make it through, but just barely and with a lot of stress and freaking out about the lack of time to do any of it.

This year, I'm taking the time to think.

I could do a year-end/decade-end series on my blogs, but right now I'm not going to worry too much about it. I'll do it when I have the time, and I'll remind myself that IT'S OKAY TO DO THEM IN 2020. I'll do them eventually because I really enjoy doing them.

I do in fact have a new writing project in the preplanning stage! I'm sort of dancing around it right now, making some mental notes and printing out a few old outtakes and thinking about how I'm going to approach it. What I'm trying not to do is Make Everything Perfect From the Outset, which I am wont to do now and again. Every time my brain insists that my prose needs to be at 100% the first time out, I remind myself that The Phoenix Effect was pretty damn terrible as a first longhand draft. That the first Meet the Lidwells draft looked nothing like the end result. That the first attempt at writing Diwa & Kaffi took four tries and a temporary ragequit before I got it right.  But yeah...I think I have a new solid plan for The Next Writing Project and that's all that matters right now.

Speaking of D&K, I'm happy to say that I've heard back from my Tagalog assistant, and I will be making the final text adjustments in the next day or so! I'm planning on sending the story out sometime early next year.

So what about the Day Job/Possible Job Opening front? it is what it is. It's tiring and I've chosen Friday as my Get Out Of Jail Free Work from Home Day (I get one a week now, woo de frickin' hoo), which works nicely because it's like an extended weekend and I get to listen to New Music Releases. I'm going to reach out to the PJO place tomorrow just to get an update on what's going on -- it's been about two weeks and a courtesy follow-up makes sense. All in all, I'm dealing with it the best I can.

On a personal note, I seem to have tweaked my sciatica this afternoon, after not having an issue with it for, well...a pretty damn long time, come to think of it. I think it happened while vacuuming today, and hopefully it'll go away by tomorrow. Other than that, not much to report...

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