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Alpennia Blog...I got nothing
May. 10th, 2016 10:55 amIt's supposed to be an Alpennia blogging day--or at least a writing blog day--but there's nothing bubbling up in my thoughts to cover at the moment. The beta-reader comments on Mother of Souls are still starting to come in. (I'll be gently reminding people of the deadline next week after I get back from Kalamazoo.) I've been doing background reading for a character for Mistress of Shadows but, no, I'm not skipping over Floodtide to write that one. It's just that Floodtide is pretty much all outlined, so I don't need to do brainstorming, and I don't want to do detailed scene-planning in advance of the writing. I've been noodling around on a short story that's entirely different from my historic/mythic stuff. And in theory I'm supposed to be working on the re-writes for Skinsinger but I've been waiting for "a good time" to focus on that.
I've also started to run through anxiety-scenarios about sending Mother of Souls off to the publisher. What if they decide that--despite having contracted for the book based on a very accurate outline+summary--it has to have a classic romance plot or they don't want it? I guess it's a form of impostor syndrome, but I have regular anxiety that my publisher is going to realize that I don't actually write "their sort of book" after all.
The last week has been massively disrupted in terms of computer activities because I picked up my new laptop (Macbook Air) last Tuesday and have spent pretty much every spare moment trying to get it properly set up and functioning. I think I may have solved that last of the mystifying problems this morning when I accidentally stumbled on the threads of the original "setting up your new laptop" script and was able to complete it. So now my machine doesn't choke at trying to connect to iCloud, and it lets me interact with the App store, and it may let me connect to public wifi networks without annoying work-arounds, but that has yet to be confirmed.
And I'm tired. I'm having one of those long runs of time when my weekends are over-booked. And if I have an unbooked day, then I'm doing massive amounts of yard work, which is physically exhausting. I was pretty dragged out Sunday, having gone off to day-trip West Kingdom 50-Year, and slept in the car (badly, of course). But having picked up my tomato plants on a whim, I was pretty much locked into gardening for the rest of the day. *sigh* My choice, and yet...
So tomorrow I'm flying off to Chicago to spend a day there with Lauri and then head to Kalamazoo for the medieval conference. It'll be good to see all the textile peeps again.
I've also started to run through anxiety-scenarios about sending Mother of Souls off to the publisher. What if they decide that--despite having contracted for the book based on a very accurate outline+summary--it has to have a classic romance plot or they don't want it? I guess it's a form of impostor syndrome, but I have regular anxiety that my publisher is going to realize that I don't actually write "their sort of book" after all.
The last week has been massively disrupted in terms of computer activities because I picked up my new laptop (Macbook Air) last Tuesday and have spent pretty much every spare moment trying to get it properly set up and functioning. I think I may have solved that last of the mystifying problems this morning when I accidentally stumbled on the threads of the original "setting up your new laptop" script and was able to complete it. So now my machine doesn't choke at trying to connect to iCloud, and it lets me interact with the App store, and it may let me connect to public wifi networks without annoying work-arounds, but that has yet to be confirmed.
And I'm tired. I'm having one of those long runs of time when my weekends are over-booked. And if I have an unbooked day, then I'm doing massive amounts of yard work, which is physically exhausting. I was pretty dragged out Sunday, having gone off to day-trip West Kingdom 50-Year, and slept in the car (badly, of course). But having picked up my tomato plants on a whim, I was pretty much locked into gardening for the rest of the day. *sigh* My choice, and yet...
So tomorrow I'm flying off to Chicago to spend a day there with Lauri and then head to Kalamazoo for the medieval conference. It'll be good to see all the textile peeps again.
