ecstaticTotal words: 1,878.
Reason for stopping: it's time for bed.
Music: the Rock of Ages soundtrack.
The cats: Alice, bed; Thomas, bed; Lilly, cat tree.
It's official: as of tonight, Chimes at Midnight is properly and officially started. I've hammered through most of chapter one, I've established the initial conflict that kicks everything else off, and I've remembered why I am so damn in love with this world and the people that it contains. I know some people are frustrated by the fact that I've gone down to one Toby book a year to make room for InCryptid, and while I desperately hope that someday I'll be able to be full-time and write three urban fantasies a year, there's a beautiful homecoming aspect after having taken this long of a break that's just plain magical. It's like...this is where I wanted to be, and I barely even knew it. It's amazing.
Tomorrow night, I'll knock out another thousand or so words of the Rose Marshall story I'm working on (it's for an anthology), and then I'll finish chapter one of Chimes at Midnight. And then I'll probably cry, because here we go again.
Here we go again.
June 20 2012, 09:19:41 UTC 5 years ago
It seems to me that it is easier to achieve a high output if you have a change of pace, or at least style, periodically. It certainly has seemed that way to me on the occasions when I have been designing, for example, the works of a consumer product and something Mil. Spec. concurrently. This is one of the saving graces of the freelance life. I would still be very cautious about relying on freelance income in the USA because of the potential problems in getting health insurance at an affordable cost.
June 20 2012, 15:20:12 UTC 5 years ago
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