Have I doubt when I'm alone

So basically I'm full of crap, in case you hadn't figured that out already. It's become abundantly clear that I'm incapable of working on multiple projects at once, that's what I mean - even though I keep vowing that this time, things will be different.

This time, things are not different. This week I found myself badly tangled up between Chapelwood and Princess X, just like I said would totally not happen; so it's time for a change in tactics.

REVISED PLAN OF ATTACK:

(1). Go all-in, and finish major Princess X rewrites by mid-April, (2). set that manuscript aside for a couple of weeks and go back to working on Chapelwood, (3). return to Princess X for a finishing/sanity-check pass, (4). get back to work on Chapelwood so I can finish a draft by July and therefore (5). get started on Godbothering which is due at the end of the year.

And oh yeah, I have to shoehorn the Maplecroft copyedits in there someplace. (To be honest, I don't think they'll take more than a couple of days to manage. Knock on wood. I'll tackle them this weekend.)

Don't get me wrong - I can do this. I just need to do it better, faster, and more efficiently than I've been doing it so far. NO PRESSURE, right?

If I must convert this mayhem into a Learning Experience, I guess I've learned that I'm better off buckling down and charging through one thing at a time on overdrive...than trying to layer-cake it, even if that looks (on the surface) like the more sensible option.

To that end, I suppose I'll report my progress on Princess X thusly: I'm 4/5ths of the way through rewriting this draft, but this last chunk is the worst of it. Today alone I scrapped 2500 words and wrote over 4000 words, not including the usual tweaks, fidgets, and rearranging; tomorrow I expect to be roughly the same.

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In other news, the yardwork continues apace - but not in any interesting fashion, really. I'm still weeding and pruning, but next week I hope to buy some new plants to replace the things that didn't survive the winter.

The cat and dog remain fuzzy and spoiled.

On Tuesday, I spent a chunk of my day hanging out with a dear old friend I hadn't seen in twenty years. She was passing through with her husband and kids, and I've got to tell you, it was an excellent excuse to have exactly nothing productive accomplished, work-wise :)

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Not much else to report, really. Except for that Tuesday interlude, I've just been keeping my head down and concentrating on all this work. I'm barely tweeting, and FB won't show most of you anything I post anyway (anymore), so I'm starting to feel like the internet has all but forgotten me.

It's a weird sensation - on the one hand, liberating. On the other hand, I feel like I'm missing out on all the fun stuff.

But there will be more fun stuff later.

So please pardon the continued semi-silence, because I've got to beat this pile of paperwork into submission. I'll be back around when I can kick at least some of it off my plate, but until then ... have a most excellent week yourselves, and I'll catch up to you on the flip-side.