June in Review

[rowyn]

Health/Fitness
Much the same as the last five months. I still exercise regularly, and I still eat too much.

WritingI did ten LJ entries, a couple of Flight Rising bios, and some trace amounts of fiction. I've written up some notes about ideas I'd like to work on next. Birthright is stalled in the "everything I write for this is terrible" mode. -

Comments

[terrycloth]

Not sure why doing one creative thing instead of another should be depressing?

Hopefully the business of writing stuff will be less hassle now that it's up and running.

[rowyn]

I enjoy drawing more than writing -- it's less like work -- but I like re-reading my writing better than looking at my artwork. So while it's nice to have done something, it's not as satisfying as having written. Also, it's been ages since I've made real progress on any fiction project. :/

[nekomavin]

Doesn't getting a *book* published count as progress on a fiction project? It's not new to you any more, sure, but all the work surrounding getting it published... That's progress.

I can also see where doing lots of writing-related work might take from the writing energies for a while. Oddly, I find that for me this sometimes happens between certain types of programming and writing, as if they draw from the same reserve. (Mostly when writing huge new swathes of functionality. Debugging and story-writing are orthogonal.)

[alinsa]

I hope to write a few other short stories and then make a collection of it.

You, of course, know where you might go for getting that prepped for publication. ;)

Are there existing shorts you might include in this as well? There's been some good ones (the one with Ember and whats-his-name, for example) that could totally make an appearance here. Also, you might consider stories in the worlds of A Rational Arrangement and Silver Scales, mostly (or completely) unrelated to the events in the actual books, just because those settings are so incredibly rich. Might even be able to double as promotional materials for those settings.

I PUBLISHED A BOOK.

*cheers wildly* Toldja you'd make it! And it wasn't even a full order of magnitude more difficult than was anticipated! ;)

Wow, I actually did all of that business-of-writing stuff that I've been postponing forever.And it wasn't even a fu--- oh, wait, it might have been. wtf is it with cities making it almost impossible to get even basic info from them about tax stuff? They'd probably

[tuftears]

*cheers for book publishing* ^_^