Progress report

This was the first week since I started the census that I’ve been able to make all writing, all the time—okay, aside from cooking, shopping, snuggling with TYG, that sort of thing.
It went well. Due to the large number of rewrites, I wasn’t as productive on eHow as I’d hoped, but I did get enough done to make a nice chunk of change, and the hourly rate still worked out above the Destin Log. So, yay.
The Applied Science stories are coming along well, and I was even able to work on Brain From Outer Space for a bit, as well as a non AS short story. It felt really good doing something outside the series—positively refreshing. I’ll have to keep making time for that.
I sent off one article query and “indexed” the chapters of The Enemy Within—that is, I have the names and film references in alphabetical order so I just have to punch in the page numbers when I get the finished manuscript. Trust me, it saves lots of time doing it now.
Unfortunately, I discovered many more errors in it than I’d anticipated (same as the last two). And the really hard part is ahead: The movie listings with all the character names and production credits. Still, progress is progress.
And I managed to make the local writers’ group meeting for the first time in a couple of months.
Best of all, I felt that I was genuinely finding a rhythm here, a routine that—with a few tweaks and inevitable dislocations—I can keep doing for a while (good thing, my job applications aren’t going anywhere, though one refusal I got today did say my work was “impressive.”).
Let’s hope it keeps up.