Still Planning, But Also Writing

 
I haven't finished my planning for my next novel. That's one of my goals for this week.
 
In the meantime, though, I'm writing short stories. Today I wrote another "Mask Story". The somewhat-long-awaited conclusion to the story arc begun with Callisto and continued in Constellation. At 2500 words, "Selene" is longer than the previous two stories combined. I tried to keep it from getting too long. I didn't want "Selene" to overwhelm the other two stories. Maybe I'll cut it some in editing.
 
Not sure yet what I'll write tomorrow. One advantage of my writing goals this year: So long as they're only about 4000 words, I figure I can start and finish short stories in one day. Might do another mask story, since I don't think I can have too many of those. =)
 
Still, this bit of short story writing will probably reduce my overall word count for the week. Much like finishing Gunwitch rather hammered last week's production. But I'm OK with that. I'm confident I'll make up for both weeks over the course of the year.
 
-David