I Did a Lot of Stuff Today
And if you count what I did yesterday, I have been absolutely a whirlwind of doing stuff! Seriously! What you ask? Well, let me tell you!
I had lunch with a friend I haven't seen in far too long. Good times and needs to be done way more often.
I mowed the damn lawn. With a new blade on the mower so it actually works properly. This meant the bag actually caught grass. I had to empty it 50 freakin' times. This was total bullcorn.
I named Courtney's intractably unnamed sequel to Rethana's Surrender by misreading a computer screen. #AccidentalGreatness
I sent out 16 Advance Reading Copies of Saga of the Myth Reaver: Downfall. Really, that was mostly aggregating email addresses and composing the mail before hitting "send" but it led to...
Sixteen mostly strangers are reading my book. I know it's a solid read so it isn't exactly nerve wracking, but neither am I entirely settled on the matter. It is a complicated headspace when you're wildly egocentric yet handing your baby to other people for the first time.
I've done the very tentative first steps of making a comic book. It's quite a balancing act between researching the how to do things versus the writing of new things I've never written before (scripts) versus just diving into the next writing project I already know how to do.
Also, I've had sticker shock over the above.
I suggested the next big publishing revolution as part of Aaron's Draft2Digital initiative. Hint: it has something to do with the above two bullets.
I've done a surprising amount of off the cuff plotting for The Next Project that I should probably write down somewhere before I forget it.
I butted heads with my kid a lot. This first full week of school stuff is pretty intense.
I've generally had a lot of interpersonal complications this week, although not so much in the last couple days. But it was big enough that the shadow looms over the rest of the week.
I, a grown-up, bought costumes for a fundraising event tomorrow night. I have not purchased a costume in a long, long time. We also bought one for the Senior Partner. Since she hates costumes and costume parties, it might literally be the first costume she's owned since Strawberry Shortcake was a hot new fad.
Seriously, when I finally got home (after an hour of driving due to some apparently serious car accidents on the highway), my head was splitting and I needed a lay down. Still, I'm pretty pleased with the output of my first full week of all day writer rather than all day dad with writing on the side.
INDUSTRY! PEOPLE PUTTING THINGS INTO OTHER THINGS...AND TURNING THEM!
The above should be read in Tom Servo's voice. If you don't know who Tom Servo is, then we may have nothing further to say to one another.
If I were a tougher guy, I'd write that "Paladins v. Clerics" post right now. But I'm not. So I'm going to do everything I can to write that up for you guys tomorrow and maybe also get something in the tank for Sunday. I think the PvC debate (see what I did there?) is pretty interesting, and I'll try and make it so outside my own head.
In the meantime, gentle ARC readers, godspeed (to your reading) and good luck (to the writing). To the rest of you, excelsior.
