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Here it is, already December, and I have short stories banging on my door to be written in between the skads of reference work I've managed to bury myself in. As is my usual, since my deadlines are a little bit away, and I just finished a project, I'm letting myself breathe. If I followed this tendency a little less, I would probably not go psycho when my deadline rolled around. I don't consider it procrastination, exactly--it's not like I'm doing things other than work to avoid work, I've just put relaxing higher on the priority list for now.

Enter psycho-busy 'Lana who didn't blog for a week because she was knee deep in coding-author-biographies-xml-help!

But now that I'm on top of the pile for a moment (or have only fallen in up to my ankles as it begins to pile around me again), I wrote two new script pages for Cowboys and Aliens, did some brainstorming with Jeremy Mohler on Worlds at War, and in general got that part of my schedule straightened out for a week or so. I still need some bonus pages, I believe, but nothing I can't manage.

The short stories on the other hand... well, I had three scheduled for December/January, but it looks like one, that was for a contest, is going to get dropped from my plate. (This is okay, since I think [livejournal.com profile] tltrent's piece that I hope she's submitting will rock all the other submissions out of the water. *g*) Which leaves me with two. And they have names, so I'll actually put up the word counts here.

Wish me luck!

"Saving Tara"
Zokutou word meterZokutou word meter
359 / 5,000
(7.2%)


"Choosing Fate"
Zokutou word meter
0 / 5,000
(0.0%)

(This one is waiting for the synopsis to be approved by the editor, as it's a work-for-hire rather than straight fiction.)
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Entertainment Weekly just explained some of the details of the Writer's Strike from the perspective of why the writers are right. It's a good primer for folks who are interested in what's going on, and I think the reporter tries to be very fair.

Not much else from this corner today. Trying to get some assignments trimmed up so I can get back to working on Cowboys and Aliens and Worlds at War (which are now two different projects).

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