Deadlines and Close Calls and Funding, Oh My!
So first things first: no post on Thursday night because I got back to my hotel around 4pm, laid down on the bed to stretch before going out to dinner, and of course fell asleep until midnight, at which point it made sense to just stay in bed because I had to be up early to head to the airport to fly home from Naperville.
The flight home was fine, but of course we landed and I had to get my luggage and get to my car and by then I was knee-deep in the rush hour traffic all the way across NJ from Newark to home. I was exhausted when I got home, so no posts Friday night either.
Saturday I went to Regan's house to join her and Patrick, Ross and Becky, Jen, and James for a coworker dinner and watching a few eps of season two of Game of Thrones. We watched three all together, including the big sea battle. And Peter Dinklage ... just wow.
Sunday was an early drive to the airport again, to head out here to scenic New Boston, Texas, which is about 20 miles west of Texarkana. Super-early flight, so I landed in Dallas at noon and met one of my Crazy Writer Women of DFW friends, Sidney Bristol, for lunch and some writing chat before the three hour drive out here. Weds morning I will drive back to DFW, and Sid and I will have lunch before I get back on a plane to head home.
I posted an interview on my site today with another of the young bands I've become friends with. Almost Hero hail from the LA area, but I met them over the summer when they were touring on the east coast with Hollywood Ending and The After Party. Here's the interview.
This past week has shown me that I really do have a Kickstarter addiction, and I need to stop. Two nail-biting last minute fundings happened for two people I'm fond of, for projects I believe in: Bryan Thomas Schmidt's Kickstarter for the Beyond The Sun anthology that I've been invited to submit to, and Brian White's Kickstarter for the third issue of Fireside Magazine. Both came down to the wire. Beyond The Sun raised its last $1,000 and went over goal in the last few hours; Fireside raised its last $1,000 in the final five minutes. The close finishes aren't the reason I need to go cold-turkey. The money is. I've gotten carried away with all the shiney perks for pledging, and not paying attention to what it's doing to my bank account. So I have one more project I've already pledged to -- my sort-of-nephew Gabe Price's Kickstarter to fund a trip to Nashville to work with a big-name producer on his second album. He's got about $1000 to raise in the next five days.
Once that one is done, I have to curtail all this donating. Not only for my own financial health, but for the sake of my Twitter and Facebook friends who are, I'm sure, overwhelmed by all of the constant signal-boosting. Time to slow down, re-group. Get back to tweeting about me and my projects. Not I won't support close friends and family on their various fundraisers, but the whole "oh, that sounds cool" shiny-things aspect has to stop.
Deadlines continue to shift, for the better for me. The Poe and Dracula anthology deadlines have now pushed back to the end of the year instead of the end of October, so that gives me a little breathing room to finish this novella. Since my last post, I've added about 4,000 words to it. I *think* the end is in sight. I hope. That deadline is looming.
For NaNoWriMo this year, I'm going to concentrate on meeting the other short story submission deadlines: Beyond The Sun. Queering Poe. Queering Dracula.
The flight home was fine, but of course we landed and I had to get my luggage and get to my car and by then I was knee-deep in the rush hour traffic all the way across NJ from Newark to home. I was exhausted when I got home, so no posts Friday night either.
Saturday I went to Regan's house to join her and Patrick, Ross and Becky, Jen, and James for a coworker dinner and watching a few eps of season two of Game of Thrones. We watched three all together, including the big sea battle. And Peter Dinklage ... just wow.
Sunday was an early drive to the airport again, to head out here to scenic New Boston, Texas, which is about 20 miles west of Texarkana. Super-early flight, so I landed in Dallas at noon and met one of my Crazy Writer Women of DFW friends, Sidney Bristol, for lunch and some writing chat before the three hour drive out here. Weds morning I will drive back to DFW, and Sid and I will have lunch before I get back on a plane to head home.
I posted an interview on my site today with another of the young bands I've become friends with. Almost Hero hail from the LA area, but I met them over the summer when they were touring on the east coast with Hollywood Ending and The After Party. Here's the interview.
This past week has shown me that I really do have a Kickstarter addiction, and I need to stop. Two nail-biting last minute fundings happened for two people I'm fond of, for projects I believe in: Bryan Thomas Schmidt's Kickstarter for the Beyond The Sun anthology that I've been invited to submit to, and Brian White's Kickstarter for the third issue of Fireside Magazine. Both came down to the wire. Beyond The Sun raised its last $1,000 and went over goal in the last few hours; Fireside raised its last $1,000 in the final five minutes. The close finishes aren't the reason I need to go cold-turkey. The money is. I've gotten carried away with all the shiney perks for pledging, and not paying attention to what it's doing to my bank account. So I have one more project I've already pledged to -- my sort-of-nephew Gabe Price's Kickstarter to fund a trip to Nashville to work with a big-name producer on his second album. He's got about $1000 to raise in the next five days.
Once that one is done, I have to curtail all this donating. Not only for my own financial health, but for the sake of my Twitter and Facebook friends who are, I'm sure, overwhelmed by all of the constant signal-boosting. Time to slow down, re-group. Get back to tweeting about me and my projects. Not I won't support close friends and family on their various fundraisers, but the whole "oh, that sounds cool" shiny-things aspect has to stop.
Deadlines continue to shift, for the better for me. The Poe and Dracula anthology deadlines have now pushed back to the end of the year instead of the end of October, so that gives me a little breathing room to finish this novella. Since my last post, I've added about 4,000 words to it. I *think* the end is in sight. I hope. That deadline is looming.
For NaNoWriMo this year, I'm going to concentrate on meeting the other short story submission deadlines: Beyond The Sun. Queering Poe. Queering Dracula.