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Dec. 24th, 2012 01:45 pmI have so many thing I ought to do that I threw them all up in the air and did the two that fell into my hands. I have made chocolates for my friends for tonight and I have read another book for the Aurealis awards. I only have seven left on my pile on the Great Unread, though more ought to arrive. I also wrote some emails, for no-one will be around to read them in about 15 minutes time, so they had to be finished.
Not a big morning's work (and only the emails were actual work), but I'm going to blame the heat. I did two hours of real work when the temperature was more tolerable. I'm finally sorting out the missing segments in how writers work and how historians work and how writers can evilly snatch at the amazing stuff historians do and use it effectively in their fiction. I've been working on the big pieces for years, but it's all coming together now. I've taught bits and pieces to test and refine my ideas, but the bottom line is that until I started to write chapter outlines, I just wasn't seeing the missing bits. I'm looking for a publisher, but looking slowly because, as ever, the fun is in the doing. Why I am not a commercial success, reason #1.
I can't find any book out there that joins the dots in this way, so I really ought to find that publisher. It's the stuff I get asked about over drinks at cons and during classes and in urgent emails by friends who have taken a step further than their current understanding permits.
In a couple of days I'll be revising chapters from the Beast, which will bring me back into the Middle Ages. A chapter a day keeps the Moderns away?
I'm also working on a short story (I know, that will be three short stories in a year - unheard of!) and the articles and reviews I promised.
This plus a bunch of DVDs means that the end of December and the whole of January is going to be a heap of fun. I even have a social life! Three times this week, I'm seeing friends.
That reminds me - if anyone is round in Canberra on 31 December, I shall be making chocolate fondue late in the evening. All my friends are welcome! Let me know you're coming so that I can make enough fondue.
Not a big morning's work (and only the emails were actual work), but I'm going to blame the heat. I did two hours of real work when the temperature was more tolerable. I'm finally sorting out the missing segments in how writers work and how historians work and how writers can evilly snatch at the amazing stuff historians do and use it effectively in their fiction. I've been working on the big pieces for years, but it's all coming together now. I've taught bits and pieces to test and refine my ideas, but the bottom line is that until I started to write chapter outlines, I just wasn't seeing the missing bits. I'm looking for a publisher, but looking slowly because, as ever, the fun is in the doing. Why I am not a commercial success, reason #1.
I can't find any book out there that joins the dots in this way, so I really ought to find that publisher. It's the stuff I get asked about over drinks at cons and during classes and in urgent emails by friends who have taken a step further than their current understanding permits.
In a couple of days I'll be revising chapters from the Beast, which will bring me back into the Middle Ages. A chapter a day keeps the Moderns away?
I'm also working on a short story (I know, that will be three short stories in a year - unheard of!) and the articles and reviews I promised.
This plus a bunch of DVDs means that the end of December and the whole of January is going to be a heap of fun. I even have a social life! Three times this week, I'm seeing friends.
That reminds me - if anyone is round in Canberra on 31 December, I shall be making chocolate fondue late in the evening. All my friends are welcome! Let me know you're coming so that I can make enough fondue.