In my current weekly special, the tail-end of Friday is supposed to be the routine stuff. Plan my schedule for the next week. Clear out my email inbox. Of late it hasn’t worked that way.
Part of the problem is that I still feel “off” due to Wisp now being our inside cat. As I’ve mentioned before, I no longer get the mornings to myself to clear my head and Wisp is more prone to wake me in the early morning than when she slept inside occasionally. What often happens is that I wind up switching my email or planning time to earlier in the week because I’m tired and then I wind up on Friday, still tired, and thinking I should be doing dull, mundane tasks, not anything creative. I will have to fix this … but not today.
Another problem is that it’s still tricky getting my exercise and stretching time in. It’s important at my age, but not easy, though I’m getting better at it.
A third, which should be easy to fix, is that I need to stop working through lunch. I do it in a spirit of “if I get this thing done ASAP, then I’ll make up the down time later.” Somehow I don’t make it up. It’s not as trivial as it sounds; taking breaks makes a big difference to my ability to focus, especially as they day goes on.
But that’s for the future; how’d this week go?
The bulk of the week was taken up with a Local Reporter article on a proposed new condo tower in Chapel Hill. News of the project has generated a lot of controversy and getting all the relevant facts and city regulations, then writing them into the article, took much longer than I wanted. I’ll skip next week so that I can catch up on other projects.
I rewrote 10,000 words of Savage Adventures, which keeps me on track for releasing my book on Doc Savage a little under a year from now. I only got about 5,000 words into Let No Man Put Asunder; where I was previously worried the book was stretching out too long, now it looks like it’ll wrap up short as I just put my characters into the endgame. However that happened with Southern Discomfort and I worked it out in rewrites so I’m not worried.
I returned to Oh the Places You’ll Go and for the first time since I started rewriting the “finished” manuscript, I made the ending work. Maybe not completely fixed, but I’m on the right track at least. And over at Atomic Junk Shop I blogged about Silver Age kid-stuff I couldn’t get into and a major turning point in the Hulk’s series.
And that’s all folks!
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