The tough thing about spec projects is that I can't even ...

The tough thing about spec projects is that I can't even do outlines and chapter without REALLY wanting to do that book (or trilogy, as the case may be). And then if it gets shot down (as my last large fantasy spec project did, and a recent large horror collaboration) I'm devastated. I'd really gotten to know those people. I really wanted to follow them on that story...

I suppose if I had a husband (or a decently paying day-job) I COULD do the whole project on spec, purely for my pleasure. And one day, I hope (when I reach the age of SOcial Security and Medicare) I'll be able to do just that. In the meantime I have to make choices.

And school starts next week. And the school's website folk have just informed me that the transfer of information from one semester's course shell to the next is NOT something they'll do, so I have to spend a day figuring out how to move files and then shifting dozens of them over, one at a time. Grr.

But, first things first. After a weekend of family and friends, I will (I hope!) finish the galleys of Magistrates of Hell, and acquaint myself with a new cast and a new situation and the joys of once again working with big-scale magic.