If it’s Monday, I must be blogging. Right? Right. (Posted Tuesday because I finished it late. As Lammie would say and possibly regret, bite me.)
My motto for the month, across the top of my whiteboard, is “Lean into the spooky.” Because it’s October, y’all. I love October. Even though the after-book-blahs roll on. I have been poking at the things I’ll need–a cover, a blurb, the announcement page on TDP–but I haven’t gotten far. Oh, oh! But the sneak peek is up! It even has a title! May the Best Ghost Win. Go! Read!
Organization I Hope
My attempts to make my flight manual work better for me are…well, I’m attempting. I don’t know how well it’s going yet. I read this article and decided instead of a weekly spread, I’d try a daily one, and box out my schedule. I’ll spend half an hour on this. Then I’ll spend forty-five minutes on that. I should give myself a break here.
So far I have learned that I am not good at figuring out how long things will take me. And I remain exceptionally good at letting myself wander off. But I do think I’m making progress. And I think that as I learn to better estimate how long things will take, the whole process will go better.
I think.
The Quest Rolls On
Progress is slow on the weight management front, but it exists. I’m trying to step it up while I don’t have a novel to fix–I’ve challenged some coworkers to a step-count contest over the next two weeks. And I made a vat of curried sweet potato soup because I can (and happily will) eat it every day for a while.
Today a coworker (unaware of the challenge) gave me a donut, and another (also unaware) gave me an Eegee’s (look, they love me, okay?) and I still managed to come in under on my calorie goal. And yesterday and today, I went for a walk and got to ten thousands steps.
It’s just so much easier to go for a walk when it’s not a hundred degrees out! Shocking, I know.
NaNooooooo…
I know what I should do–finish something that I can put out through Turtleduck Press. It would really be awesome to be a book ahead! And I have multiple choices that I love–Flame II, the unfinished Princess story, Beast, my granny on a quest book…but none of these enthuse me right now. (You’ll note that, contrary to NaNo rules, these are started works. It’s because I have sooooo many unfinished works back there that I don’t want to write new stuff yet.) (We’ll just ignore how May the Best Ghost Win is wholly new and also a whole new universe, oops.)
If I let go of the guilt of needing to write for TDP, I could write the sequel to Louder Than Sirens. Been meaning to do that for a while too. Or Running Deer and Hidden Badger.
Could also follow NaNo rules and write a new Dream’verse novel, could (finally!) write the third book of Seize the Fire, could write a new Team Gargoyle story…
I want to do all the things–and none of the things. One thing I very much extremely Do Not Want, though, is to write yet another universe.
Making up whole universes is hard.
Almost as hard as decisions. *shudder*