#WritingWednesday – Multitasking

For the Week of July 14-19, 2014

The challenge coming out of last week was to maintain the momentum  I had built up.  Things with the Novel formerly known as Hunter were going gang busters, I had fallen into a productive groove and things could not be better so long as the momentum could keep going.

I’m not going to say the momentum fell off.  Even though it kinda did, it doesn’t feel like things ground to a halt.  But rather I’ve added back in a few more things on my plate and with limited time and more balls to juggle into the air, less time can be spent with any one thing.

So… what did I add to the mix?

Audio

The Slipspace Harbinger Podcast has been a slow burn of ongoing work since I started the CPA a year ago.  And while I’ve been working it on and off in between CPA studies I’ve been engaging vocal talent, organizing production schedules and the like, and doing what I can to put things in order for work.

This past week, aside from my usual bout of audio wrangling and touching base with the voice cast I needed to get updates from, I took advantage of some unseasonably cool weather in Chicago and took some time off work to record.  I managed to record three chapters of narration representing close to 20,000 words of text.  It had been my plan to do more later in the week, especially on sunday, however heat and humidity blocked that plan, as I have to turn off my condo’s HVAC system to prevent the blower from contaminating my recorded audio.

Even so, I’m very happy with the progress and am looking forward to some more mild temperatures so I can put in a few more marathon sessions.

And in case you’re wondering, no… there is still no ETA on when Ep 1 goes live.  Way too much to do at this point to even speculate.

Writing has slowed a bit.  I’ve come up against a couple of snags in the plot of the novel.  Nothing insurmountable, mind you, but a few character related questions that need to be answered before I can proceed.  Even so, writing continues.

This coming week will prove busy.  It’s a concert week for my orchestra which will see me in five hours of rehearsal (instead of the usual two and a half), plus the concert itself.  There’s a day trip scheduled, and some preparation that must be done to ready my home for guests who are coming for said concert.

Still, there will be time for words.  Due to time constraints as well as hot and humid weather, I am not planning any recording sessions this week, but as some of the NfkaH plot questions get answered and come into focus I’ll be getting back to the writing.  I have also pulled the first chapter of Virtuality, for review and re-writes as it’s very explicit and very dark content needs a facelift before I am comfortable sending it out to beta readers.

So.  That’s been the week.  Tune in next week and I’ll update you all on how things are going on that front.

Until Next time.