So many thoughts, so little time
Feb. 22nd, 2008 05:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eimarraThanks to everyone who weighed in on Sabra and SF. Current word count on the file is just barely over 90k, so for length I don't really need to make major additions. Some scenes are being deleted, some added. Overall, it's going to stay about the same length. I'm going to finish the current edit pass, maybe making notes on things (such as setting reactions) that could use additional work. Then do a complete read-through and see if I think it's ready to go out to critters or if it needs more in-depth labor.
As to when . . . well, I'd hoped to have it done before now. A year ago, I finished writing the draft. I should've managed a single edit pass in that time! But it's been so long since I did anything on it that I have to work to get over that inertial barrier again.
So very much I want to be working on right now. I want Sabra's edit finished (which isn't the same as wanting to work on it, I realize). I want to run through Witchy Woman and re-outline and rewrite it. It's only 53k now, and that's much too short. And scenes need to be rearranged, in addition to the subplots being beefed up. Then there's this middle-grade SF novel I've started. Only a few thousand words into it, and I think it has a lot of promise. I need to get back into the discipline of "The Writing Comes First," so I can make real progress. Then I have this new urban fantasy (or possibly paranormal romance?) idea with a male MC.
But right now, all of that's taking a back seat to short story work. Yeah, I know, I said I was giving up on those for 2008. But I think "Ophid Dei" would be good to submit to Eclipse Two. (Just realized today that my story is a sort of response to Butler's "Bloodchild." Fascinating. I'm taking part in the dialogue of the genre.) So that has to be edited and out in the next week--by the 29th, in fact. And I want to submit "Winter White" to Cat's Curious Press, which has a deadline of March 31, but I need to wrap up the story *and* edit it in that time. Then I need to get my edits done on my submission for PARSEC's short story contest and get that sent off by April 15. I've had that written forever, so I've no excuse to not get it done.
All of this, plus keeping up with an adorable two-month old. Well, no, she's not running around yet, but she needs a lot of cuddling and feeding and changing. And it's awfully hard to do those things and type at the same time. I'm going to manage, though.
Some other time, I'll mention the *other* things I want to write, intermediate-length works for various contests. Right now, though, I've got to deal with dinner.
As to when . . . well, I'd hoped to have it done before now. A year ago, I finished writing the draft. I should've managed a single edit pass in that time! But it's been so long since I did anything on it that I have to work to get over that inertial barrier again.
So very much I want to be working on right now. I want Sabra's edit finished (which isn't the same as wanting to work on it, I realize). I want to run through Witchy Woman and re-outline and rewrite it. It's only 53k now, and that's much too short. And scenes need to be rearranged, in addition to the subplots being beefed up. Then there's this middle-grade SF novel I've started. Only a few thousand words into it, and I think it has a lot of promise. I need to get back into the discipline of "The Writing Comes First," so I can make real progress. Then I have this new urban fantasy (or possibly paranormal romance?) idea with a male MC.
But right now, all of that's taking a back seat to short story work. Yeah, I know, I said I was giving up on those for 2008. But I think "Ophid Dei" would be good to submit to Eclipse Two. (Just realized today that my story is a sort of response to Butler's "Bloodchild." Fascinating. I'm taking part in the dialogue of the genre.) So that has to be edited and out in the next week--by the 29th, in fact. And I want to submit "Winter White" to Cat's Curious Press, which has a deadline of March 31, but I need to wrap up the story *and* edit it in that time. Then I need to get my edits done on my submission for PARSEC's short story contest and get that sent off by April 15. I've had that written forever, so I've no excuse to not get it done.
All of this, plus keeping up with an adorable two-month old. Well, no, she's not running around yet, but she needs a lot of cuddling and feeding and changing. And it's awfully hard to do those things and type at the same time. I'm going to manage, though.
Some other time, I'll mention the *other* things I want to write, intermediate-length works for various contests. Right now, though, I've got to deal with dinner.
