My new approach to structuring my "working time" is to focus on one project for a week, then move to a different focus the next week. This is as contrasted with trying to work on multiple projects every day, or doing one-day focuses. So far, I feel like it's being productive. The week timeframe means that I have a chance to get my feet underneath me, get into a deep-focus zone, and get substantial work done.
Writing Process
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I promised that one reason for taking a short vacation from LHMP blogging was to get traction on some other writing projects. To start with something bite-sized (because it's always nice to get that boost from completing something) I went back to a short story about a harpy who's moonlighting as a muse. Following my plan to try writing long-hand to avoid distractions, I got three pages written. And then when I went to transcribe them, I discovered that I had a lot more already written than I remembered.
Today I finished revisions on the sixth Skinsinger story. I only have the final novelette left to go. Plus several more specialized revision passes, a separate copyeditor, drawing up all the additional material, coming up with a cover, and learning book formatting. You know, the trivial stuff.
When I created a publication entry for the website and reached the field for "publication date" I realized that I have two months to get this all finished to hit my target of having it out for Worldcon. Doable, but no room for dawdling. Guess I'd better find a cover artist and copyeditor!
The one major to-do item for my vacation this week was to write a short story I promised for an anthology on libraries and librarians. As of now, it's complete and ready for a few beta readers with quick turn-around time. It ties in with my planned Restoration-era historic romance series (series title: Diana's Band) and involves the failed heist of a book of Latin pornography. (Nothing explicit in the story.)
Evidently at some point when I wanted an anchor to tag for talking about the next Alpennia book, I arbitrarily pencilled in an expected release date of March 2023. So if you happened to view the front page of this website at some point in the last four days, you may have gotten your hopes up that Mistress of Shadows had magically acquired a physical existence.
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