Which is to say, census work is disrupting my schedule more than I thought.
It’s not that there’s been a huge amount of work yet, it’s just that after three months of forty-hour weeks, it’s more tiring than I thought to push back up to fifty-plus, which is what I need to write and enumerate both. And while it’s great that a lot of my work to date has been done in the afternoon, doing the census in the evening would be more productive: I’m not going to put in three or four solid hours of writing in the evening because I’ve got TYG to spend time with (it’s not like she’s forcing me or anything—she’s the woman I love and my top priority).
Plus, my theory that “Well, I can just add a few eHows on days when the census is slow” hasn’t worked out as well as I thought.
I think part of it is also that I’m still feeling some pressure working on the Applied Science series. I’ve never had a deadline for fiction before; I’d just work at it and work at it until it was done. Knowing it has to be done by deadline is a very different situation, especially when I lost so much time during the move, and then finishing The Enemy Within (which has been renamed by McFarland, with my permission, as Screen Enemies of the American Way).
Too bad, so sad, I guess: The work needs to be done, so off I go to do it.
May 21, 2010 · 11:42 am
