I’m definitely off my game right now…it seems to happen every time I put in a Herculean effort to finish something, there’s always fallout on the other side where I’m a bit dazed and “floaty.” That was definitely my day today.
I slept too much, I played Fallout for too long…I didn’t hardly get anything done…it was just one of those days. Sigh…
The upside is that it’s a quiet weekend and I can really put my head down and get some work done. I can still catch up, and that’s good.
I reached out to the Facebook fam tonight and got a rather amazing response for Beta Readers. Hopefully some of them read and enjoy the book — scifi is definitely not EVERYONE’S genre, you know? And that’s totally okay. Every author has to find their audience. Especially at the beginning. And that’s what I’m doing. It’s going to take a while, I know that…but I’m going to get there.
Liz’s dad left town today – had quite a wonderful visit, all told. We went out to breakfast this morning and I had the most crazy-delicious parfait from Sweet Butter. I don’t think I’ve ever done that there before, and it was SO GOOD. Lin had the same thing. We were twinsies.
Anywho…I have a lot of work ahead of me…but I did accomplish a big milestone with this rewrite. I still don’t feel like its sunk in yet…and maybe it won’t until the book is actually published, but, here we are. Not much I can do about it right now. It’s a funny thing that happens…I put so much effort into a project, especially brainpower, to the point where I’m obsessed about it, and it feels like the most important thing I’ve ever done…and then I “finish” the project, and suddenly it’s just another thing I’ve done and I’m moving onto the next project.
That’s happening with Starstuff. I have *agonized* over that story trying to improve it…but now that I’ve put in (probably) most of the grunt work on it…I’m already feeling ready to move onto the next one. It’s not the end-all be-all. It’s just one book. And that’s not to minimize it at all…I’m just not going to put the pressure on any one piece of art that I create to be a masterpiece. I’m just going to create and keep creating.
That’s all I got for y’all tonight. Hope you had a good one 😉