Vacation is over. I’m supposed to be going back to work today. So far I’ve turned the heat on in my office. I’m thinking of following it up by making a desktop background with all my book and comic covers. As inspiration, see. thinks to do: – email the comic team with deadline information – respond to matrice’s emails – write for an hour – go for a walk
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vacation: how does that apply to you?
Yesterday in comments somebody asked how vacation appealed to me, but the first five or so times I read it I read ‘apply to you’. Given that many people are profoundly skeptical about my ability to actually not do work, let me tell you how I will not be working over the next four weeks. These are all things which are on my list of thinks to do, so it’s not that I’m making things up to prove I won’t be working. I am not going to: – contact the…
done dee done done DONE!
The copy edits are well and truly finished, although I need to see if I can find the Much Larger Version of the map to include, and I need to print off the couple extra pages of Stuff that I’ve edited or added. Then it’ll go in the mail first thing tomorrow. I need to go over the letters for the second issue of Chance. And I need to finish writing the Morrigan short story. And I need to call the bank to find out why they turned down my…
tomorrow, we write
Today is going to be full of Doing Work That Isn’t Writing. I have a dream that someday I will no longer be behind the 8 ball. (This would no doubt be made easier if I would stop taking on new projects. I spent a good hour on Saturday looking at my shelf of books I’ve written and trying to figure out where “taking a break” fit into the next few years of finishing those series. I did not come up with an answer. On the other hand, nor did…
been a long week, somehow
I don’t know why, but it’s been a long week. But the proposal for the fifth Walker Papers is turned in, and I’ve given up on NNWM. I’m going to write the Morrigan short story next week, and if I get done with that before the end of the week I’ll go back to NNWM and do as much as I can, but copy edits for PRETENDER’S CROWN are due in, and Dublin City Comic Con is next weekend, assuming I get paid. Well, it’s next weekend even if I…