These are the Things I am on Fire to Do

SO I AM BACK FROM READERCON and exhausted, but on fire to do the things.  Yes, I realize the irony of doing this instead of doing the things, but there are so many, and I am so shit at prioritizing that I feel the need to write them down first so I can figure out which ones I am doing, in what order, and which ones I am letting percolate more.  These are the things.

THE CHILD IN HIS SWORD should be my top priority.  I have a notion about what was blocking me from continuing with the 2nd draft, thanks in no small part of handful_ofdust and company at the Write What You Know All Too Well panel.  It's old, boring psychological stuff, but it was in my way, invisible.  Now that it's visible, I can slip around it.  So I'm going to slip by it like a Very Slippery Thing.

FINISH "HOLD FAST TO ME." Almost there.  Going to shoot to have the first draft done tomorrow.  Got the chapel scene to rewrite, the trek out to the rock, Brother Fish and Pastor Steed's first meeting, the pool and the 3D printers, then the end.  No way this one is coming in under 5000 words, but so be it.

DO SOME RESEARCH on Acer platanoides and other local invasives.  I've a story seed that I hope is going to sprot.

RADIUM GIRLS story.  I am starting on research for it, and I hope to have it done by the end of the month for the Long Hidden anthology.

SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF MURR AND SOONEY-CROW.  Here's the problem: the thing behind it is a bit of a stolen idea, but I am interested to see where it goes.  There's no way it could be less than a novel and that's okay.  I am going to start sketching it and see where it goes.

I'M GOING TO REDO SOME POEMS.  Some of the old ones, that aren't quite right, as a regular thing.  There's a lot of them that I wrote back in the day and never touched again, and I've been writing less and less over the last few months and feeling a little estranged from the language, and it seems like a good way to do it is to tinker with the language in those ugly stepchildren to make them salable.

HOMEWARD/THE PAUPER KINGDOM, that thing I posted as a game setup that got a lot of notice and love, I am going to flesh out and possibly fold the Beast Fears Fire 2nd Draft into it.  Thing is, I have two competing setups for game settings and ideas (honestly, they are great inciting incidents for stories as well, if characters appear).
First one is what I already did, focusing on displaced people and their culture and negotiating the dangers of returning to one's homeland.
Second one is for kicking the lost cause myth over and setting it on fire, but I don't have an awful lot for that yet, but the desire to learn more and see how it maps to fantasy (ground rule on that one - only humans).

THISTLEDOWN is a game idea, that, again, would be a great space opera setting if I could do it (and I am dead certain it's been done, so I need to track down who did this already and read the shit out of them), wherein a colony settled by sleeper ships manages the trick of reliable space-opera level FTL and then goes out to see how the other human colonies are doing.  As a game, you'd be taking on the roles of the crews of the little explorer ships they send.  As a story, well, I'm not worried about that.

I NEED TO BARTER with csecooney for the stuff I missed when I missed her and sevenravens ' performance workshop.  Actually, I am really, really eager to learn how better to perform things, because the last few times I've performed has left me kind of cold.

AND! ALL! THE! THINGS! I! LEARNED!  Many things.  Still processing.