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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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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.)
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.)
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Date: 2008-09-23 02:58 am (UTC)I was going to put a humorously egotistical comment here, but it came off a bit snide.
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Date: 2008-09-23 03:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-23 03:04 am (UTC)There's one. Now to work on everyone else...