The last of the to-do list, and a thought about professional writing
What's left on my to-do list before my work resumes?
The next chapter of Bricks - Playing Hard to Get
Deciding whether or not to write the Petlar emotional episode resolution I was so hot to write a couple days ago, but have nearly completely forgotten about now (damnit!)
Write out the Syko timeline
Watch a movie tonight with my mom. Have dinner with her.
Do something tonight - go out to BDSM, or play D&D. Haven't decided which.
Rewatch tomorrow
And that's about it. It's too windy and nasty out to do any yard work. I have everything mulched as well as I can. There's a lot of weeding that needs done, but not enough to be worth doing it in the whipping wind. I might read a bit more in the M/M writing book.
Speaking of writing, Neil Gaiman says here: "... I decided that I'd do my best in the future not to write books for the money. If you didn't get the money, you didn't have anything. And if I did work I was proud of, and I didn't get the money, at least I'd have the work." I have yet to write something that I have any intention of selling, but I've been reconsidering that recently, toying with ideas about drama, romance, science fiction, fantasy, and extraordinary abilities. I've mentioned before that Heroes wasn't my first writing efforts. I wrote a novella about vampires about ten years ago, and I had quite a few stories short and long set in the World of Darkness. Like Heroes, the world belongs to someone else, but in the novella I changed it up enough that it was at least publishable. And then the thing that kicked off my recent multi-year writing streak was the future-world-building / science fiction story I would tell myself each night to put myself to sleep. I'd wanted to set in stone the 'early periods' of the story so my imagination could more easily focus on the rest, yet within a few thousand words I was distracted into Heroes. The story is still in my head; it always will be, as it is a variant of a story I would tell myself when I was a kid. I think it's saleable; it certainly has obsessed me to varying degrees for thirty years. I think I've become a good enough writer to do it, plus I've found resources in this science fiction writers' group that would help me. It's something I'm going to consider.
The next chapter of Bricks - Playing Hard to Get
Deciding whether or not to write the Petlar emotional episode resolution I was so hot to write a couple days ago, but have nearly completely forgotten about now (damnit!)
Write out the Syko timeline
Watch a movie tonight with my mom. Have dinner with her.
Do something tonight - go out to BDSM, or play D&D. Haven't decided which.
Rewatch tomorrow
And that's about it. It's too windy and nasty out to do any yard work. I have everything mulched as well as I can. There's a lot of weeding that needs done, but not enough to be worth doing it in the whipping wind. I might read a bit more in the M/M writing book.
Speaking of writing, Neil Gaiman says here: "... I decided that I'd do my best in the future not to write books for the money. If you didn't get the money, you didn't have anything. And if I did work I was proud of, and I didn't get the money, at least I'd have the work." I have yet to write something that I have any intention of selling, but I've been reconsidering that recently, toying with ideas about drama, romance, science fiction, fantasy, and extraordinary abilities. I've mentioned before that Heroes wasn't my first writing efforts. I wrote a novella about vampires about ten years ago, and I had quite a few stories short and long set in the World of Darkness. Like Heroes, the world belongs to someone else, but in the novella I changed it up enough that it was at least publishable. And then the thing that kicked off my recent multi-year writing streak was the future-world-building / science fiction story I would tell myself each night to put myself to sleep. I'd wanted to set in stone the 'early periods' of the story so my imagination could more easily focus on the rest, yet within a few thousand words I was distracted into Heroes. The story is still in my head; it always will be, as it is a variant of a story I would tell myself when I was a kid. I think it's saleable; it certainly has obsessed me to varying degrees for thirty years. I think I've become a good enough writer to do it, plus I've found resources in this science fiction writers' group that would help me. It's something I'm going to consider.