Week 1

I started with jonowrimo last week, putting out there that working on the novel was big goal #1. Keeping up with paying work was the second, yet equally important goal.

My whole last week, from turning the first draft in to doing the full on edit of the resulting draft that I turned in today, was eaten up by a paying gig. This is a game gig, so there was a playtest involved (which still counts as work, folks--playing D&D while editing a module is more work than play, proportionately speaking). I did take the last two days to let my brain sort of get back to normal (and travel up to see publius in Boston), then spent today hammering away at the thing until finally, I think I've got something that works.

Hopefully my editor will agree!

The worst part of this project was that I often ended up working on it late, which meant I went to bed late all last week, and didn't get the kind of sleep I probably needed to be at 100% productivity. So not only have I been a frantic writer, I've been a crabby writer. I'm ready for crabby writer to go home and let happy writer come back!

We'll see what tomorrow brings--and hope that this will be the case, considering the copious amount of paying work I've got lined up these days. (This is not a complaint, for the record. I very much appreciate my paying work. But I will feel happier about all the work on my plate once I have a whole day of just relaxing, not traveling, and pretty much just doing nothing.)

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(No reading/writing sig today, because I'm not entirely sure what I'm reading or where I'm at on anything that I'm writing. My brain is full.)

Coyote Wild

I forgot to mention, Coyote Wild's YA issue is live, complete with "Nomi's Wish" and stories by janni, faerie_writer, jimhines, asakiyume, drachin8, fairmer, and several other wonderful writers who I don't know from lj. (I have not yet read them, but I know they are wonderful because I trust sartorias's taste.)

I may take a chunk of tomorrow, once I organize my brain, to just read some of the stories. I did read the poem by Shweta Narayan and jimhines's "The Haunting of Jig's Ear" when they were first posted, and enjoyed both very much. (I particularly enjoyed "The Haunting of Jig's Ear," if only because Jig the Goblin getting the best of people who are bigger and more powerful has a way of making my day. Goblin or no, I identify with the guy.)

If you have the chance, definitely drop by and read some of the stories--and send a note to the featured writers who have ljs. I've been getting some very nice comments, both on lj and via web chat, and I'm enjoying having other people meet Lou and Will an incredible amount. I've never had such quick and direct feedback from readers, and it's thrilling! I'm hoping to be insightful enough to be able to do the same for the other featured writers.