The Week in Review
This past week I worked each day, Monday through Friday, essentially all day. I mean all day: Notwithstanding meal breaks and some veg time here and there, I would start in the morning and finish up with dinner, a few videos, and bed.
I particularly want to shout out my work on Wednesday, Hump Day: Knowing what I needed to do for the remainder of the week to stay on schedule, and knowing that writing was going to be difficult and inefficient on Thursday (due to my plasma donation; I tend to be much less productive after one), I wrote almost five thousand words of copy on Wednesday.
I will be handsomely rewarded for my week of above-normal toil: Thanks to generous grading, and the return of plasma money, plus my Patreon income, I will be well in the green this month, partially compensating for last month's plasma losses.
My goal in this was not to make money per se, but to free up as much of the end of May as possible to take off and devote to my creative work. I also want to continue going through the Virus Comix archive.
In the end I failed, mainly due to taking on a literal last-minute assignment on Friday morning that consumed three hours and ensured that not only would I not be able to take the rest of the month off beginning with Saturday, but that I will in fact have to work a full day on Monday and probably some amount of Tuesday as well. Then I will have whatever is left of the month, off, plus, it's looking, the first few days of June, since May ends midweek this year, and I have included the work due that week (even the June end of the week) in my labors this past week.
The first non-cash dividend of my week of toil paid off yesterday: I spent much of Saturday working on Galaxy Federal, transformatively revising old material and, significantly, undertaking the first of many (many) integrations of rogue scenes into the manuscript. This was a hallmark of my novelization efforts in May and June of The Year of 32 and hopefully (though not necessarily) bodes well here.
I recognize that, compared to the "most-of-a-book" I wrote in March 2017, the current incarnation of the Galaxy Federal inaugural novel is no better than 10 percent finished (probably less)-mainly because it is significantly longer and more complex. This novel is likely to be several times longer than the Prelude, for instance. Most of it isn't even written at all yet, let alone revised and integrated. In other words, I have a long ways to go.
But, as of yesterday, I did get one step closer! ^_^
I particularly want to shout out my work on Wednesday, Hump Day: Knowing what I needed to do for the remainder of the week to stay on schedule, and knowing that writing was going to be difficult and inefficient on Thursday (due to my plasma donation; I tend to be much less productive after one), I wrote almost five thousand words of copy on Wednesday.
I will be handsomely rewarded for my week of above-normal toil: Thanks to generous grading, and the return of plasma money, plus my Patreon income, I will be well in the green this month, partially compensating for last month's plasma losses.
My goal in this was not to make money per se, but to free up as much of the end of May as possible to take off and devote to my creative work. I also want to continue going through the Virus Comix archive.
In the end I failed, mainly due to taking on a literal last-minute assignment on Friday morning that consumed three hours and ensured that not only would I not be able to take the rest of the month off beginning with Saturday, but that I will in fact have to work a full day on Monday and probably some amount of Tuesday as well. Then I will have whatever is left of the month, off, plus, it's looking, the first few days of June, since May ends midweek this year, and I have included the work due that week (even the June end of the week) in my labors this past week.
The first non-cash dividend of my week of toil paid off yesterday: I spent much of Saturday working on Galaxy Federal, transformatively revising old material and, significantly, undertaking the first of many (many) integrations of rogue scenes into the manuscript. This was a hallmark of my novelization efforts in May and June of The Year of 32 and hopefully (though not necessarily) bodes well here.
I recognize that, compared to the "most-of-a-book" I wrote in March 2017, the current incarnation of the Galaxy Federal inaugural novel is no better than 10 percent finished (probably less)-mainly because it is significantly longer and more complex. This novel is likely to be several times longer than the Prelude, for instance. Most of it isn't even written at all yet, let alone revised and integrated. In other words, I have a long ways to go.
But, as of yesterday, I did get one step closer! ^_^