Today had been planned for several chunks of writing work, but the computer problems took up nearly the whole day.\u00a0\u00a0 Luckily, I had washed all the socks before that happened, and a few pages were written while notes for others were hammered out.\u00a0\u00a0 Others were thought about.\u00a0\u00a0 The best news is that what I thought might have to be a three-book project was summarily reduced to one (at the suggestion of a wise friend, and after I thought about it for all of sixty seconds) and that markedly reduces the likely time away from Paksworld, even though no long stories of Paksworld have yet popped up.\u00a0\u00a0 That’s because the grimdark project has been eating a hole in my brain for over six months now.\u00a0 And it will be much better, if it actually jells instead of being a really neat idea, in a shorter form, because the worst grimdark part won’t last as long and the character I’ve been interviewing in a small uncomfortable room will have less time to display his darker side and more time to show his (previously well plastered over) humanity.\u00a0 I was not looking forward to a whole book of him in detail (but I can’t get the setup out of my brain.\u00a0 Yet.)\u00a0 And maybe it won’t jell after all, and I’ll feel less guilty about dumping a single volume unfinished than a set.\u00a0 And maybe another story WILL jell , quickly, and I’ll be back on a long project.<\/p>\n
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On the short fiction side, another Jamis story isn’t progressing particularly well, and I haven’t had time enough to dig into the young-Cracolnya story again.\u00a0\u00a0 I need some days uninterrupted by computer problems and extra trips to the city.\u00a0 OTOH, next weekend is A-Kon, so next Thursday I will throw myself onto a train and relax for a few hours rather than driving to Dallas (once on the train I am free of all responsibility until I arrive.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I will take notes for work to do when I get back.\u00a0 This weekend will be the Great Laundering and Packing weekend, because every day previous to the departure has something other than packing already scheduled for it, all of which involve driving somewhere.<\/p>\n
My personal copies of Crown still have not arrived, so there’s diminishing chance of my having them at A-Kon.\u00a0\u00a0 Luckily my UK copies came and some of them were in the boxes shipped yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0 And of course I’ll be taking socks-in-progress…<\/p>\n
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