Puzzled out the order of those scenes while musing today at work.  I came home, edited the end of the last scene I’d written to accomodate things, and then took a nap :p

I’m going to read for a while and wind down, because shortly after figuring that out, my day at work went to hell.  I’m one of those people who can’t stand to see things done with a complete lack of intelligence, and my boss was demonstrating staggering amounts of asshattery today.  For the sake of shaving maybe a half hour off the day ( Gotta cut that overtime! :rolleyes: ) we pretty much screwed up every load sent out with stuff out of sequence, ran everyone like dogs during a heat advisory, and just generally produced a completely unacceptable level of quality control by necessity of the ludicrous speed he was attempting to run.

For some reason, he can’t seem to comprehend that light speed, grind to a halt, light speed, grind to a halt has a center point that gets you to the same place without fucking up order quality in the process — despite having been provided with regular examples of exactly that truth.

It’s hard to say whether they hire idiots, or whether the morning ops meetings ( which cannot be interrupted for operational problems — even complete shutdowns ) steadily suck their brains out of their asses, but something is obviously going on.

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Anyhow, I’m going to read for a while, then probably make the final tweaks on Queen, get it off for editing, and see if the young one is going to either go to sleep or at least chill enough ( if he remains uninterested in my company :p ) to let me get to work on those freshly aligned scenes of Kindred.

I’ve got two(three?) scenes that I know are a part of the build-up in Kindred, but I’m having difficulty deciding which one best leads into the other.  I’ve been musing it all day at work, and the scenes are really well fleshed out, save for the lead-in and lead-out that determines order.

It’s up to 5600 words, BTW.

Feeling a little run down from it tonight, so I’m probably going to let it simmer for another day and hope for that flash of inspiration.

I might make the final adjustments to Queen and get it off for editing, but I’m really pretty blah tonight.  I did go back and do some more tweaking to Kindred that help tie the overal theme of the story and Mara’s motivations into the scenes more designed to establish Wade/relationships between the characters, though.

So, it’s not as if I haven’t written anything *laugh*

If the young one happens to drop off in the next half hour or so, I might pick up something and try to make some forward progress.  I had a flash of inspiration on a story ( well, a title that struck me and made me smile that’s been waiting for a story ) for my third pen name, so that might get a beginning written to help jumpstart me when I feel like diving into it.

Still have SOTM and Lowborn there waiting for me to feel those flowing again.

2900 words into Kindred, and moving right along.  I’d probably be farther, but I had to stop and do a lot of research on various things that play minor roles in the story.  I don’t want to get called out for going beyond the bounds of GPS, two-way radios, and sat phones.  I need them as minor plot devices.

Got the first read back on Queen, and I’m making adjustments now.  It will be ready well in advance of the start of the contest, but everyone will just have to wait 😉  The other story will go up as soon as it’s edited, but it’s in my secret pen name, so I can hardly announce it here, can I?

Haven’t had one of those server errors in a couple of days.  Maybe the host has finally migrated me off the glitchy server.  Here’s to hoping.

Off to bed.  Back to writing in the morning.

Finished my first-pass edit of Queen, and it’s off in the hands of first readers.  I’ve alerted my editor that he has a couple of stories coming his way, as well.

Also finished that third pen name story.  Ditto the first-readers.

Started reworking the beginning of Kindred again.  I just got back from the store, so I’m going to cool down and relax for a few before I dive back into that.

Starting to itch about Lowborn as well.  Only two chapters ( I think ) left there, so it would be nice to get it finished and out there.

Anyway, I’m clearing the plate a little.  Hope to make some serious progress on Kindred this weekend.

Doing a little bit of everything.  I spent most of the day musing Kindred, and I’m going to end up changing that first scene again *laugh*  It just gives away too much of the story the way I have it written.  Likewise, I’m going to introduce a character a little later than I have to provide a bit of tension building.

Probably won’t work on that tonight, though.  I wrote on that story I’ve been fiddling with in my third pen name when I got home.  Still quite a bit of the sex scene left to write there.

Once I’ve wound down a bit, I’ll probably go into the first cold read of Queen.  If the boy happens to go to sleep, I might jump on that rework of Kindred, or get back to that third pen name story.  That’s unlikely, though.