Maybe I’ve written 200 words. I’m off this morning, because I have a late meeting and so I’m shifting some time around. There are other writer things on my mind, so I’m having a little trouble with ye olde discipline this morning. Still, the file is open, and I’ve written a little, so that in and of itself is something.
Yesterday, I was given the privilege of reading someone’s manuscript. That’s another cool writerly thing that is part and parcel of the whole becoming a writer experience. I actually look forward to seeing the evolution of drafts, although I know some people really find that frustrating. It does take time to do that sort of thing, but writer karma is as important as research karma. We need to read things for other writers, so they in turn may read for us.
I’m putting together an application for a speculative fiction travel grant, which I will try to finish pulling together today. This would be to gather material for The Winter Kingdom, which would be the more frost elf sequel to the troll book. I need the architecture and folklore research something fierce. I’m going anyway, but it would be nice to be able to defray costs.
There may well be a journeyman writing workshop in Vegas I’ll be going to in February. That means I’ll probably hit Vegas twice this spring. Well, Allegiant is pretty cheap…
Let me see if I can get ten minutes more of words out of this morning. Then it’s off to the office to doggedly pursue the goals of the day.
Catherine
