State of the Me
May. 25th, 2011 04:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerinSo, I tweeted a couple of times about being sick... I have what I really hope is a 24 hour stomach bug or something similar. It hit me last night while I was out and about, kept me up most of the night, and has kept me close to a bathroom for most of the day. What I'm simply going to call the worst symptom thereof seems to have abated, though I'm trying to keep my fate-temptation to a moderate level there. I still feel shaky, which can probably be put down to lack of sleep plus mild dehydration.
Tomorrow I'm supposed to be getting on a plane for WisCon. My prediction based on how things are going today is that I will better and fit to travel. The alternate prognosis, of course, is that I will be worse and not fit for traveling, which would really really suck for multiple reasons, not the least of which is that I'm supposed to be that I would be leaving the rest of my party hanging in more ways than one. So any good thoughts and well-wishes are appreciated.
In either case, the next two days aren't going to be work days. I had what I thought to be a moderately ambitious workload planned for this week, but because I approached it piecemeal I have a lot of stuff that's begun but nothing that's done, and I need to get my packing and con prep done tonight in a way that I'm not going to strain/exhaust myself.
I'm tempted to try to salvage a finished chapter out of the 2,000 words I have written, but the results would be so much less... I have plans to rewrite the 1,000 word infodump about television into a conversation that is also going to be potentially revelatory about other topics and I'd rather do that than post it in infodump form. Note: I'm not talking about getting rid of the information... it's not "plot relevant" but it's the sort of thing that people tell me repeatedly that they want to know more about. Just less dumping and more weaving. This chapter is an important one, as it's a big part of what I feel Twyla's fans are owed... I'm referring here both to the fundraiser "answer incentives" and to the support she received when the question was raised of who readers wanted to see more of/learn more about in the second volume.
So, anyway... as I said on Twitter, I'm sort of canceling this week. May's newsletter will go out sometime next week. The first installment of Kin & Distant Relations will come out at the start of June. You'll still get the 13 episodes that were promised when it won the fundraiser, but like the Twyla chapter I want to make sure it's as good as it ought to be instead of something I banged out.
If you're going to be at WisCon, I really, really hope I see you in a day or so. If not, I hope you have a fantastic Memorial Day/early summerish weekend. Either way I'll see you back next Wednesday.
P.S.: You all bought 30 copies of the The Gift of the Bad Guy Kindle edition. That means I'll be enlarging the whiteboard map to 4 times its current area, and for those who missed my addition to the initial post on that subject I do have an artist on board for making a nicer version when that's done.
(As a sidenote, I really need to get a tattoo on the inside of my eyelids that says "One thing at a time." The best laid plans o' mice and men are spoiled by the other best-laid plans of those same mice and men.)
Tomorrow I'm supposed to be getting on a plane for WisCon. My prediction based on how things are going today is that I will better and fit to travel. The alternate prognosis, of course, is that I will be worse and not fit for traveling, which would really really suck for multiple reasons, not the least of which is that I'm supposed to be that I would be leaving the rest of my party hanging in more ways than one. So any good thoughts and well-wishes are appreciated.
In either case, the next two days aren't going to be work days. I had what I thought to be a moderately ambitious workload planned for this week, but because I approached it piecemeal I have a lot of stuff that's begun but nothing that's done, and I need to get my packing and con prep done tonight in a way that I'm not going to strain/exhaust myself.
I'm tempted to try to salvage a finished chapter out of the 2,000 words I have written, but the results would be so much less... I have plans to rewrite the 1,000 word infodump about television into a conversation that is also going to be potentially revelatory about other topics and I'd rather do that than post it in infodump form. Note: I'm not talking about getting rid of the information... it's not "plot relevant" but it's the sort of thing that people tell me repeatedly that they want to know more about. Just less dumping and more weaving. This chapter is an important one, as it's a big part of what I feel Twyla's fans are owed... I'm referring here both to the fundraiser "answer incentives" and to the support she received when the question was raised of who readers wanted to see more of/learn more about in the second volume.
So, anyway... as I said on Twitter, I'm sort of canceling this week. May's newsletter will go out sometime next week. The first installment of Kin & Distant Relations will come out at the start of June. You'll still get the 13 episodes that were promised when it won the fundraiser, but like the Twyla chapter I want to make sure it's as good as it ought to be instead of something I banged out.
If you're going to be at WisCon, I really, really hope I see you in a day or so. If not, I hope you have a fantastic Memorial Day/early summerish weekend. Either way I'll see you back next Wednesday.
P.S.: You all bought 30 copies of the The Gift of the Bad Guy Kindle edition. That means I'll be enlarging the whiteboard map to 4 times its current area, and for those who missed my addition to the initial post on that subject I do have an artist on board for making a nicer version when that's done.
(As a sidenote, I really need to get a tattoo on the inside of my eyelids that says "One thing at a time." The best laid plans o' mice and men are spoiled by the other best-laid plans of those same mice and men.)