Sleeping in the fire

I've had a boxer rampage through my head during the last few days (but I didn't actually write much more than 1,300 words recently). He's inspired by Rachel Haimowitz's "Belonging" world (to recap: it's today's world, added with pretty brutal slavery). I'm just giving the whole thing a bit of a spin, see what happens. It's not yet anything I could talk about in any kind of length or detail. The muse is currently busy fitting the ideas into one plot arch, so I go from "three cool scenes" to "story". It's a pretty critical phase, during which the story continues to shapeshift.

I'm still reorganizing my life to fit with the new job. Since I'm mostly on the late shift these days, I'm home at around 20:00 (when I leave the house at around 9:15), I'm attempting to get more stuff done during the day and in the morning and have food and stuff set up for when I get home. Over the next few days, I'll have to make some changes to make my life easier, but overall, I've rarely, if ever, been so relaxed in terms of work. Even yesterday, while I was in charge of a Big Important Report and had Big Important Analyst constantly at my desk to make last minute changes, things were going well. If that's the worst the new job can throw at me, I'm not worried. Plus, I got my payslip a couple days ago, and that's a shiny number there. I think I'll use the windfall to get my eyes lasered in due time.

I'm also listening to a lot of WASP (hence the title of today's post) - it works well with the boxer idea I'm carrying around in my head.

Other than that, not much else. Life's settling into the new routine, I keep pushing my various projects. "Father of all Things" is moving forward, with edits now with Carina Press. Since the Royal Mail lost the contracts, I just posted them again.

Expecting the edits of "Scorpion" pretty soon, and we're waiting for acceptance of "Break & Enter", the CP story that went out about 2 weeks ago. In the meantime, I'll just keep pushing stuff forward.