Well, it’s good to be home. I got about 30k words written in the 5 days I had away, and that was lovely (including completing a short story I hope to submit before too long to a specific market… I’m a little unhappy with the ending right now, but I think I can work out the kinks).
But now it’s back to work, school, and writing, and vying for every moment of my free time. And that’s okay. While writing full time is definitely the dream and the goal, it’s okay to have to work while working towards the dream.
I mean, I hope so. It would be far better to not have to, but we do what we can with what we have, right? Right.
The new novel is coming along really nicely, and I’m happy about that! I think it’ll need a fair amount of cutting eventually, but that’s also okay. For now it’s just getting that first draft out there and done, and then focusing on the specifics later. I have a kernel of a really cool story, and I think I can eventually polish it up to be a beautiful gemstone, for now the goal is just getting enough material that I have something to chip away at eventually.
Anyway, you get the idea. Progress is nice.
Also have a paper due early March that I want to finish this week (nothing super exciting, but I think I need to get a couple drafts done so I can make it better before it’s done), and I submitted some paperwork to help the Writers Group I run become a bit bigger and hopefully more engaging to its members. One of the members of the group just got accepted to do their PhD work at Carlton U, and that’s amazing, but we are going to miss Ari and their contribution.