Short but intense

And no, I’m not talking about myself or TYG (we’re both 5′ 2″).
This week has been short because I’m once again heading out of town, albeit for fun (visiting some friends) while TYG stays behind for work (I hate that part). So I’ve been squeezing everything into the previous four days, which explains the intensity.
It didn’t go quite as smoothly as I’d anticipated. When I got back from last week’s trip and relaxed in TYG’s arms, I felt great. After a day of work, the strain started catching up to me. It’s not so much the physical effort as that I score moderately high as an introvert on the Meyers-Briggs scale: I like socializing, but after a certain point, it drains me (high extroverts, in contrast, get revved up by being around people). And that trip was 3.5 days of constant socialization, on top of the previous weekend’s wedding events. I skipped writer’s group this week because I just ran out of steam dealing with people (I’ve regained enough steam to visit Greenville, don’t worry).
What did I get done?
•Several rewritten chapters of The Impossible Takes a Little Longer.
•Finished the first draft of Yellow Jack and Honor and Glory. Both very rough (my first drafts always are), but they’ll improve.
•The latest draft of Eye of White Cathay looks much better, but it still needs something to punch it up (I’m not sure what).
•My P.G. Wodehouse fantasy, Devil in the Fog (working title only), runs aground near the end. Part of the problem is, my villain’s motivations need clarifying—once I know what they’re trying to do, I’ll be able to figure out what happens.
•I whittled my fiction backlog down to 2.5 hours, compared to 17 at the start of April. I’d wanted to erase the backlog (the accumulation of all the times I haven’t put in 12 hours a week on fiction), but Thursday I realized my fiction-writing was just me staring at the screen and drifting mentally. Better to give up the fight than waste time going through the motions.
•I’m working on another Raleigh Public Record story, this time on food trucks down town (as you’ll see when I link to the story, it’s controversial issue. It was back in Destin, too).
•eHows done (and may I say how nice it is to be working on finance again instead of tech?).
•How to Pay Down a Mortgage or Save for a Dream Home
•How Multiple Credit Card Applications Affect Credit
•Weaknesses in Debt Management
•Sample of Customer Service Skills in Clothing Stores
•The Best Practices for Hiring a Sales Force
•Contingency Plans for Loss of Key Personnel Causing Team Failure
•Criteria for Judging Strategic Performance
•Why Should Performance of Both Nonperforming & High-Performing Employees Be Documented?
•Why Choose a Non Qualified Retirement Plan?
•The 80/20 Rule in Sales Team Performance
•How to Apply for a Second Mortgage