January 16, 2008

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For lunch, I met up with Kat at my favorite Ballard joint, Bad Albert’s — where the fish sandwich is absolutely to die for, and the company is always good (since I almost always go there with Kat). But on either side of that exceedingly pleasant break, I did verily Accomplish Things.

Granted, little of that productivity had anything to do with the west coast steampunk Victoriana book with zombies, air ships, toxic gas clouds, mad scientists, dead folk heroes, secret criminal societies, and extended deleted scenes from the Civil War; although I did select and excerpt my sample material, and begin the joyful process of cleaning it up.

My new goal/guideline for daily workflow shall be thus: when I have writing projects other than my steampunk tome, then I will devote composition time to the former — and editorial time to the latter. This way I neither abandon it altogether nor sacrifice productivity time on more pressing gigs. The more pressing gig of the moment is a short story I’m working on for (the hopeful/potential inclusion in) an anthology.

Tentative title, “The Catastrophe Box.”

New Year’s Resolution Status: Safe
Present word count: 1181
Goal for January: Draft Zero by next weekend or sooner.
Things accomplished: Introduction of characters, setting, etc.
Reason for stopping: Exhaustion. Headache. Etc. Husband will be home from ninja class soon.





Stumbling blocks: The simple fact of getting started on a new short is usually the toughest part for me. I noodle around with all the details in a notebook, trying to sort out character names and general conflict elements; and sometimes this takes me days before I have enough material to start typing. I don’t usually write from an outline or anything, but I do need a place to begin.

Category: misc

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