Life, Interrupted

Boy, it took a lot to make it through the holidays. I needed time to unwind after the great mailing of holiday gifts to the family, and the nuts, nuts, nuts! (Half still wrapped and in place for Odd Friday -- hope everyone wanders through.) I read a bunch of short fiction and did 11 SFWA Nebula nominations. Then there was the "When life gives you too many ripe pears, you make sorbet" and "Yes, there is more powdered sugar on the floor than in the bowl, please go away". They can wait a day or two. In the meantime:



You can find this little guy and his moods here:
http://www.writertopia.com/toolbox/meters

A scene for the BLIND TIGER crew, but think it comes later-later -- like another novel.

I choose to take this as my subconscious being optimistic about sequels.

Oh -- and I chose this LJ design a year ago, almost exactly. I scanned a few of the new designs, and nothing seemed right. So for the time being, we go with old design, new name. Because there's been movement. Progress? I hope so.

Happy Western New Year!

The caulking is really trashing my hands, so I took a day off and wrote. Have no idea if the fragment was for this book or another with the same characters, but I enjoyed writing it! Trying to write before simple Live Journal postings, so no Samhain or Thanksgiving reports yet. Too spacey today -- not as much work as I should have gotten done. Still, six+ pages good!

Fox N Darkhorse book:

Well, that blasted lab test I have now taken TWICE, once in SF and once in Austin, was screwed up AGAIN by the lab, and I'll need to do it AGAIN -- once the paperwork arrives. And it will take three weeks from when I take it to get the results.

Can you say "not until after Thanksgiving?"

$#@^!

Blind Tiger ReDux:



Meter guy courtesy of Writertopia.

3,136 / 125,000 (3.0%)

New first scene for BLIND TIGER remake. Took some arm-wrestling, since I wasn't quite sure I had the voice of one of the new characters. But it's finally smoothing out. The other scene will get chopped up and appear as flashbacks later on.

Now -- sleep I've earned!

4,568 / 125,000 (3.0%)

Turns out that only that lab can do the test -- the question is, can the local version of that lab also do it? I really don't want to fly back to SF for a bloodtest -- or wait six months to try again.... Maybe a driving trip and sleeping bags?

Well -- I'm 104 pages into the new Allie book, but this other thing with creating a Fantasy-mystery out of BLIND TIGER is nipping at me. Here's today's tally:

2,250 / 125,000 (1.8%)

We'll see if I've learned to write two books at once.