Lots of interruptions and annoyances today. I’ve worked a little on Lowborn, a possible Summer story for the contest at Lit, and a few other things.
Hoping for some quiet time later to work on the read of Beauty. If not, I’ll take care of it in the morning before the young one gets up.
We’ll see where things have shaken out tomorrow. Odds are that anything I get done tonight will push up to the point where I’m too tired to report it *laugh*
Blinked into the forum today and saw something I never thought I’d see.
May 2011 Reader’s Choice Award
Ch. 16 of Sisters of the Mists got first place in the May Reader’s Choice awards!
Thanks to everyone who read and voted! Finally will have a nice blue W on my page as Dark to go with the ones as Les.
I’m tickled, needless to say.
Figured I’d better drop a little update.
There are quite a few things moving, but I’m having to bounce around a lot. My focus is pretty sketchy right now.
I’m writing on the next chapter of SOTM, the final chapter of Lowborn, the Nude Day entry of Magic of the Wood, a multi-chapter Les-Lumens story that I had put on the back burner for quite a while, and have the beginning of a couple of other stories going as well.
I’m more or less blinking between documents and seeing which one is flowing. I have the plotlines sketched out in my head, but translating that into prose is where the issue comes up. Sometimes SOTM is working, sometimes it’s Lowborn. I just have to work on whatever is working for me on any given day.
The good thing about that is that they’re all coming along toward a conclusion point ( either a chapter or a story ) at about the same rate. Once I finish one of them, there’s a good chance that they may all start coming out in quick succession right afterwards.
That will be the next SOTM, 8 chapters of Lowborn, the new Magic of the Wood, and 4 chapters of that Les story. Quite a bit of new stuff.
Holding off on website updates for the moment, because I’m gearing up to do another set of big updates to the underlying software. Looking through the feedback, I decided to wait until the latest release was a little more stable, and it appears that time is now. Just need to find a good time to do it when I can be prepared to deal with any issues that crop up.
There’s lots going on in my head on a daily basis, which is usually the signal of a flurry incoming. When I have so many stories knocking around in my head, they build up and bust the dam that clogs up my creativity in time.
Figured I’d drop a line since I’m going through another bad period of not updating. I’ll see if I can’t correct that, at the very least.
Fighting a motivation slump. I’ve puzzled my way through several sticky points that had drawn me up short across the stories I’m working on, but when I open up one of the documents to actually write, I’m just not feeling it.
I can muse on the story, get excited about it, but when I open Wordperfect, the words just don’t come.
It’s frustrating — especially with an important deadline looming.
All I can do is try every day.
