In most ways it is good I still have a job. I can pay my bills. But the severance would have been nice too. While temporary it would have paid the bills while giving me a lot of free time to find my next steps. Lots of time to write, edit and get myself down the publishing road. Not that it isn't a possibility looming over us still but not for another year at least as the overall company finally decides how to 'integrate' us. Still, it was a wake up call... and one I will fight not to lose. While I like my day job the thought of losing it didn't send me into a panic. I'm good at what I do but I'm not passionate about it. So I think it is time to move on. Move forward. Stop hiding where it's safe.
Thus editing of By The Pen has continued. The first scene will be going before my critique group soon. Yeah yeah... I chickened out last session. It's a scene I like but one that I was raised to think myself nuts for even considering. All around nerve wracking. Mom & Asrion, be gentle when it finally shows up? Please? Anyhow, once it's gone through there and I'm sure of it I do believe that scene will find its way here. I'll tell you now it's a shock value scene that does not have any of the heroes of the story in play. It's all about the villain... well, one of them anyway... and from his perspective.
Q has been silent. I don't know if he's leaving me be while I sort out the rest of my world or if he's disappeared into the cosmos.
Then there's NaNoWriMo. 8 weeks from today the entertainment begins. Some I've talked to are excited, wishing the time would go faster so they could start writing. Others are feeling nauseous because they have no idea what they're going to write about. Me? I might work on a sequel to By The Pen. I might work on something else entirely. Not a clue and I likely won't know until I open up that shiny new empty document and start typing. I've never been much of a planner and that won't change. I like my process which involves a lot of brain dump before things coalesce. Thus I type with a notebook/pen at hand to make notes on what gems flow and what I need to remember as I go forward. That notebook is the closest I get to making a plan. But that's my process. Everyone is different... as it should be.
Anyone else have thoughts on this year's NaNoWriMo or writing processes? Or just thoughts in general... we do have 8 weeks to kill yet. ;-)
SK