Taking the time to think
Nov. 17th, 2019 05:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jon_chaissonOkay. 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 myGet 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...
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
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...
