I’m pretty sure that the first post I write every March for the last… 8 years?… has been some variation of “In Like a Lion.”
I don’t even know what that phrase is from. “In like a lion, out like a lamb”? Or something like that?
Anyway. New month, new novel time!… theoretically! I’m still 30K words to go in the second draft, but it’s coming along really well. I love the feeling of flow. I sit down at my computer, and four or five hours later I realize that time has passed. It’s a really amazing feeling, and that’s what the edits have felt like.
Sadly, I haven’t had a chance to start the movie filming. I had hoped to, but the painting commission I’m working on has chewed up basically all the time I haven’t been writing. I’m happy with it, I think the client will be very happy, but yeah, super time consuming. But when I wrap up the edits (maybe by the end of the weekend, if I really manage to put nose-to-grindstone), then I’ll send it off to my editor and I’ll have all that time available to me.
And I’m excited! I love my art, I love making my art, and I’m hopeful that someday soon I can focus all my energy towards that instead of dividing it between the work I love and my muggle job!
Hope everyone out there is staying safe and healthy!