We pause to do a little planning.
It’s August! School starts next week, and I’m actually looking forward to it, because it means more writing time. That’s right…more. Up through Friday, my days at work are 8 am – 4 pm solid. Since I went back to work in July, I’ve been trying to get my writing in during the evenings, with limited success. This, coupled with a busy July, are the reasons I’m behind on my expertise hours. Not REALLY behind. It’s a matter of 8 hours or so, which I should be able to make up with a few extra hours once I get that time I have built into the semester to write.
What have I done this year? Successes?
Crystal Vision has come out in Swill 5.
Turtle of the Earth will come out in Cucurbital 2. (and I’ve seen the author copies.)
O-Taga-San is scheduled to come out some time from Flyleaf Press (an imprint of Drollerie)
Completions?
I finished The Winter the Troll Danced with Old Nick in October (which is technically last year, but you know…)
I began The Were-humans, originally intending to make it a novella.
I plotted the five books of the Klarion Series.
I began the heavy-duty revision of The Substance of Shadows.
I began a short story I’m tentatively calling End over End.
Circulations?
Only two things at this point
Mark Twain’s Daughter at Tor.com
Empress Dark at Space Squid (just couldn’t say no to a name like that!)
What do I do with the time that remains in this bright, shiny year?
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I plan to write a lot of ungainly Substance and get some reader reader feedback. Then I intend to let it cool, and look seriously at their suggestions, work it through the Maass exercises, and 10 percent it. Somewhere in there, I’ll get some writer reader feedback. This is obviously gonna take a while.
To avoid entire insanity, I will probably interject a short story every once in a while. I have a few ideas.
I am also thinking of writing the first of the middle-grade Abigail Rath Versus! books. I have to decide whether I’m going to start with vampires or the 5th grade mad scientist, but I’m leaning toward vampires.
I have no idea what I’ll get done when, but at this point, no deadlines make all things possible.
How’s about you? What’re you planning?
Catherine
What do I do with the time that remains in this bright, shiny year?
Take a rest break? It sounds like you’ve earned one! 😀