Eighty percent of a good week (#SFWApro)

Today being the bad 20 percent. I have a tendency to sleep very poorly when I’m stressed and it doesn’t take much stress. And last night apparently worry about the deadlines I was juggling on a couple of projects got to me. I got up and worked on ’em, but I didn’t get much else done. Of course, I also had to mail some stuff for Mum, deal with a contractor and do a little baking for friends, so I have some excuse.
Plus I’m trying to watch as much stuff for the Time Travel on Screen book as possible, and even though it’s fun watching films for work, it can make it hard to turn it off, walk away and just not be working on it. So that probably contributed to my stress.
The end result was that my fiction production this week was again very sub-par. I did finish rewriting Kernel of Truth, based on an editor who said he’d happily look at it again if I made some changes. As they were good suggestions, I figured that was a win even he says no to the rewrite.
And I did figure out where my problem was in Southern Discomfort, so that’s back on track, but didn’t get very far down the track.
I did several articles for Demand Media and completed most of the work on another freelance assignment, and without wasting much time on it either. I have a bad habit of approaching nonfiction jobs as if I were still on the clock and could dawdle, so perhaps I’m getting past that.
And I sent out one magazine query and a couple of freelance job queries.
On the downside, I had one small project that might have netted me $100 (one of the ones I worked on last night), but I don’t think the guy I talked to is going to be able to get approval from his employer to be quoted. And I don’t have an alternative. However, I could still hear something late tonight, so fingers crossed.
My fiction performance still really sucked, but I can make up at least a little of that next week.