I don't know when today's Instant will be published, but I'm doing my best to see that the flow of fiction remains largely uninterrupted.
I'm on support duty, today. Propping up those I love through their time of trial. And according to my brain, it means bringing along enough tissues. Which means all of the carry packs I have left, because I overcompensate.
Yes. I know. I'm mental. I can deal with that.
Chaos is seeing her shrink, today. We're all going to a funeral, tomorrow. I have no idea what Wednesday holds, but it's bound to include looking for more Beta-readers for Beauties, and possibly working on Chaos' very first book. I should have the time by then.
I need to figure out a way to make an iced coffee that I can tolerate, because there's no way I can drive as much as I'm driving, this week, without caffeine. One that will (a)
Read more »Beloved bought me a vinyl turntable, yesterday. While I was out with Chaos and gently stewing in my own juices, Beloved was rearranging the front room to include surround sound, once more1. Beloved, who claims to be tone deaf, has turned into an audiophile overnight.
So now I own a record player that doesn't take twenty minutes to warm up2 and is compatible with most of the other technology in the house. Plus there's a chance I can bootleg save
Chaos is attending a party, today. This is a chance for me to network with other Parentals, and social interaction practice for a chronic introvert. No, not Chaos. Think again. Yep. Me.
Chaos is going to be fine. She'll just leap in while I'm still solving five-dimensional social conversation math. I'll wear my little SPG gear pin just in case there's a fellow Steampunk nerd there. I always have high hopes of making a new, nerdy friend.
And if someone asks... and
Read more »Since nobody gets out of bed before 5:30 anyway, I'm re-setting my alarm to that time and not waking up early for half an hour of heartbreaking inertia. And that's all I have this morning. Inertia has me in its wicked claws today.
I woke up at around 3 and tried and failed to get back to sleep. A combo of Beloved's snoring and the various little annoying lights in the room kept me awake. The phone makes the body lotion
Read more »I think I should probably try to do a "head space" comic per day. As well as the other stuff. I've learned I can only handle animation in small doses, so maybe five frames a go is my limit. And I still haven't posted the progress pix for the latest art piece I'm working on.
I know that it looks like a bag of suck at the moment, which is why I haven't posted it.
Bag of suck or not, I feel
Read more »I know I'm getting to sleep. I know I'm sleeping the night... but it's not working as much as it used to. Maybe it's the change of seasons. Maybe it's the time I spend reading in bed. Maybe I just need a coffee. Whatever it is, I'm not as fully "charged" as I'm used to.
Which means I'm back to functioning on low battery.
I know how to do it... I'd just rather not. You know?
My shrink gave me more homework,
Read more »I'm still doing the read-through of Beauties, and aim to get to the halfway point before the end of the day. Each chapter takes fifteen minutes away from other things.
Other things like writing my Instant, or working on the first five hundred words of the new book, Rael. And I haven't even written the nut notes.
They'll evolve as time goes by.
I've always needed nut notes to keep things straight. As I introduce people, I'll take notes.
And everything is
Read more »I'm off to MeMum's today. To deliver a few things, sort out her compy troubles, and possibly help with whatever happens to be happening at the time. It's a long and tiring trip for me, and I don't expect much creativity to be done today.
As it is, I am hurrying to get the Instant done so I can be on my way,
I've only done a read through of one chapter of Beauties. It takes a lot of time and focus
Read more »Good news: I have found a way to do an efficient read-through of Beauties before I send it off to my dear, dedicated Beta-readers.
Bad news: It sucks balls and takes an age to do.
The method? I get my computer to read my book to me and follow along. Chapter by chapter. I have to take the time to devote myself to this so that my Betas have more to enjoy and less to do. Y'all should be backup to make
Read more »Before I wanted to write a draft of the very polite letter I sent to the most recent A2B, I thought I'd check in on their website to see what their responses were likely to be like in the first place.
if we are interested in discussing possible representation, we will contact you by email or phone—typically within 6 weeks.
The time limit has run out. They haven't contacted me. So...
I pick another A2B and try again. At least the
Read more »I scanned for news about the International Women's day and the global women's strike that was supposed to happen, yesterday. Not a sausage, as Bluebottle would say.
Hopefully, things are better in other places. Maybe some certain people will see the advantages of paying people equally for all the invisible work that gets done.
It could turn out two ways, really. The whiter percentage of the population could be just fine with a 27% pay gap, think they have enough rights already,
Read more »There once was a man in the late 50's who would come home from work to find his wife exhausted and not "in the mood". Everything else was picture perfect. The house looked like it came out of a catalogue, the kids were clean and picturesque. Dinner was a dream... it was just the little lady who was constantly out of sorts.
Every evening, he had the same complaint. "I don't know why you're so tired, you just do nothing all day.
Read more »[AN: IDEK when this should have posted, but you can assume I was very distracted]
Okay, so today is busy and I only have myself to blame. I had scheduled an appointment for Chaos to get her shrinky paperwork in order for yesterday afternoon, but because of a sick Mayhem, I completely forgot about it.
Derp.
Now I have one this morning, but with squeaking room to actually get to the shrink on time. AND I have paperwork to hand in to
Read more »So we finally edited Adapting, yesterday. And it was a slog. One of my dear Betas did not like the way I introduced all the concepts in the first chapter. I'm halfway compelled to start every single one of the first five Amalgam books in the exact same way.
I mean, sir Pterry started all of his earliest books by yatting on about A'Tuin for about three pages and nobody complained. It's setting the scene. It's a small amount of showing exactly
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