First week back (#SFWApro)

I’ve now wrapped up my first week of work since returning from vacation. Overall, I did well.
I’ve finally got more Demand Media articles to do though not as many as I’d hoped (a lot of them fall outside my skill set). It’s good to have money coming in, though I wish I had more.
•I submitted an article query to Ask, a children’s magazine. I also started work on a couple more queries I’ll have done by month’s end.
•I watched the usual ton of movies for the time-travel book.
•I reviewed my last draft of Southern Discomfort and noted down questions, problems and obvious necessary changes. Some of them I’d already begun thinking about. Some of them are problems I just haven’t found a solution for yet. One or two substantial changes I hadn’t expected became obvious: I think Maria’s crisis of conscience happens much too early in the story. She twigs almost instantly to what’s really going on, and it feels like a big leap. And it feels like I should include Aubric’s funeral somewhere in the story.
•I also started rereading An Encyclopedia of Fairies by Katharine Briggs to get some added ideas I can work into the book. It’s a classic of its kind, full of information about fairies, monsters, goblins and other items of British folklore and it is indeed generating some ideas.
And that was pretty much it. Productive, a little tiring, not as profitable as I’d like, but satisfactory. And now I’m done.