Weekend Update Takes It Easy
May. 13th, 2018 01:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jon_chaissonIt's been a nice relaxing weekend here, not doing much of anything at all. A good walk through the neighborhood, some minor grocery shopping, and a call home to Mom, and that's about it. Can't complain!
I do need to start working a bit on the panels I'll be on at BayCon in a few weekends, though. This one's going to be a bit interesting, as these panels aren't exactly the ones I normally sign up for. Two of them are of my own making: one dealing with the idea of mentors in the Star Wars universe (A's idea, actually), and another focusing on science fiction and fantasy in music within the last few decades (which I'm actually kind of surprised got accepted!). The third is another interesting one: returning to a created world after spending time away from it (which of course I'll talk about the Mendaihu Universe). No panels on self-publishing or doing readings this time out! So yeah... gotta prepare for those!
As for the 750Words project from the other day...that seems to be going well so far. I'd forgotten that the old one on my joncwriter email is a free account because I joined way back in 2012 (when they went to a paying site, the old users were grandfathered in as lifetime free), so when I set up the GMail-tied one, I had to pay. It's only $5 a month, and the site is so worth it, considering I use it nearly every single day. It's only been a few days, but I can definitely feel a difference, because I'm forcing myself NOT to focus on the book-as-whole, only on the scenes at hand. I'm going to keep going with it until further notice then.
Not much else to report here. Hope everyone had a a good weekend, and Happy Mother's Day! :)
I do need to start working a bit on the panels I'll be on at BayCon in a few weekends, though. This one's going to be a bit interesting, as these panels aren't exactly the ones I normally sign up for. Two of them are of my own making: one dealing with the idea of mentors in the Star Wars universe (A's idea, actually), and another focusing on science fiction and fantasy in music within the last few decades (which I'm actually kind of surprised got accepted!). The third is another interesting one: returning to a created world after spending time away from it (which of course I'll talk about the Mendaihu Universe). No panels on self-publishing or doing readings this time out! So yeah... gotta prepare for those!
As for the 750Words project from the other day...that seems to be going well so far. I'd forgotten that the old one on my joncwriter email is a free account because I joined way back in 2012 (when they went to a paying site, the old users were grandfathered in as lifetime free), so when I set up the GMail-tied one, I had to pay. It's only $5 a month, and the site is so worth it, considering I use it nearly every single day. It's only been a few days, but I can definitely feel a difference, because I'm forcing myself NOT to focus on the book-as-whole, only on the scenes at hand. I'm going to keep going with it until further notice then.
Not much else to report here. Hope everyone had a a good weekend, and Happy Mother's Day! :)
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