Strange day. Despite being uncomfortable in ways, a pretty good one.
Last night, thoroughly played out, I was asleep by about 12:30 AM. I intended to get up about 9:30, figuring I’d be well rested.
Then around 4:30 I got up to visit the john. When I returned to bed I couldn’t go back to sleep. Oddly, not for the usual reasons, being ovecome by fears (reality-based, but so far at least exaggerated); instead my mind was full of ideas for the short story I’m taking time out to write.
So after a while, I got up and wrote on it. Had the World Baseball Classic on in the background. Tiring after an hour or two, I went back to bed. Couldn’t sleep still; this time, neither good nor bad, just couldn’t. So I got up and wrote some more, read some. Went back to bed around 9:30 and slept until 12:30.
At which point I ate, wrote more, took Emma for a walk at Los Poblanos Open Space, which I usually call by its old name, the Vineyard. It was a wonderful Spring day, with enough of a cool breeze to be bracing, and fragrant after nearly 24 hours of rain. Then I came home and got a call from Joe, who’d gotten off work today because mud closed the lab. So we went to dinner. Then home again.
The story, by the way, is for a BattleTech anthology I was invited to contribute to. Cassie Suthorn and Camacho’s Caballeros ride again! It’s a lot of fun.
Should have it out Wednesday. Then back to my Deathlands book and racing to the end of the rough draft of DinoLords. Almost there! Almost there!
PS – why not drop by my Forum and check out my rant about the latest Firefly episode I watched?
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“So I got up and wrote some more, read some. Went back to bed around 9:30 and slept until 12:30.”
What did you read?
IIRC, The Sword of the Lady, the concluding volume of Steve Stirling’s current Change World trilogy.
Which will not be, uh, publicly available for a few months yet. Perq of being in the writers’ group.
Thanks for asking.
Sometimes I read this novel about medieval warfare with dinosaurs in it. Forget who’s writing that one though…
Yes, yes, you sarcastic devil, you.
I’ve been away from finishing that certain novel for the same reason I’ve yet to respond to Anders or you on the Watchmen thread: writing a BattleTech short story I got commissioned to do.
Which I just finished and sent off, and thanks to the miracle of the Internet the editor’s already acknowledged receipt. And which should have just landed with a thunk in your inbox, since it’s my March crit-group sub.
So there.