…I spent it working on deadlines (tomorrow is Patreon Day!). I am looking forward to March, not least because it’ll be spring and my birthday month. Although this year is the dreaded Double Nickel for me. Ach, well, it beats the alternative.
And, honestly, I need to get back to getting stuff done before tomorrow night. So it goes.
Will be doing another one tomorrow. Probably this time with a dust mask, because the dust was pretty awful. Definitely with a charged-up power drill, too.
Moe Lane
PS: Oh, it all worked. But we spent a lot of time trying to figure out how everything went together. Tomorrow’s construction will hopefully go better.
My wife had her colonoscopy this morning, which thankfully came back with an excellent report. I’m not really worried about these: they’re a precaution against a particular potential condition that has already been thoroughly treated. Nothing happens, and nothing is likely to happen, and I don’t feel apprehension or fear while waiting for the procedure to be over. But that switch still gets flipped on. And flipping it back off again is always a relief.
So, that was my day. How was yours?
Today was a productive day, for given values of productive. I’ve been doing a bunch of paperwork for the SCA event I’m running next month, which is fun in that special not-really way, and I actually managed to sit down and block out how three stories are supposed to go. I am ashamed to admit that I was being too seat of my pants.
Soon? Soon, I do TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION VOL 2 surveys! Backerkit ones, to be specific. I’m having them check my setup now, just to make sure that I’ve done everything right. Expect to see surveys, starting next week.
…I almost typed ‘Yay!’ there. Sorry: it’s been a long week.
This happens, from time to time: I focus on stuff, and let everything else go, and suddenly I have less to talk about. So, what should I be getting into? What should my readers be getting into? That’s always a good topic of conversation.
It’s been a dull night, sorry. Oh, I’m going to be in on another online book sale next month. The last one moved a nice number of books, so I’ll be doing TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION this time. Get people hooked, and all that. And I should be getting the art for DUTIES soon. Likewise also cool.
But not much else, otherwise.
#commissionearned
This was something I did for Patreon, back in 2018; and it could do for Kindle Vella, if I turn it into the 8,000 word short story it should have been. I just need to put together a better conflict than the one that I had in the original. More accurately, a less rushed one. I’m thinking that something a little more madcap might be in order. Car crashes into haystacks and chickens flying around and maybe a running gag or two. I could make it work.
Of course, I also have other things to work on, but at least I have ideas percolating in my head now.
Various forms of crap going on; and that’s just the way it goes, sometimes. I decided to just do TINSEL RAIN additions because everything else felt slightly oppressive and I’m a little ahead of schedule for the monthly story for Patreon. Just as long as I don’t turn a couple of days off into two weeks, I should be fine.
Although, I should note: the three Tobias Marsh/Asenath stories (one has yet to be written) will be the new sampler for next year’s Kickstarter! I know how the third one is going to go, and it’ll make for a good triptych, so that’s sorted out. Tentative date for the Kickstarter to begin will be one week before Farpoint, so that I can advertise it at the convention itself. My wife suggested it, because she’s smart like that.
I mean, seriously, I know that I was doing stuff and… stuff. And I could have sworn that I was posting stuff. But apparently… not. That’s kind of alarming, actually. Not really alarming-alarming, but weird.
