. . . is what I’ve been calling my plans for the year. The big list of next looks like this:

March: Cartography for Beginners rough draft.
April-May: the movie rough draft
June-July: Arcana rough and editing
August-Sept-October: Editing Cartography for Beginners
November: Nanowrimo (next SF ‘verse story)
December: REST!!! maybe write some fic.

Though I’m considering writing the Arcana in March and saving the next novel for the summer, but I’m not sure at the moment. What project I will begin tomorrow will depend on which one feels the most ready, and I may surprise myself entirely and decide to start the movie instead. (Unlikely, really, though I got some more material and a good idea from my partner this morning that makes me itch to get this thing going.)

And between all of this there’s editing to be done for the new releases, and maybe some shorts, too. (And the day job and what passes for a social life and all the household things . . .)

I am starting something tomorrow. Don’t know what yet, at the moment. But there will be something.

This entry at Smart Bitches about why happy endings are considered inferior has reminded me of the struggle I’m having with The Movie, and I thought I’d repost something I wrote in another blog here.

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This is one part test post and one part update. I crosspost to Livejournal both from this domain and another, and the crosspost plugin has been falling down on the job, so I’m trying to figure out if it’s a Livejournal problem or a plugin problem or a domain problem.

I suspect it’s a plugin problem.

And now for the update . . . well, not much to update, actually. I’ve been participating in a web project called 14 Valentines and that’s been keeping me occupied for the last week, but now I’m buckling back down on the birthstone story, which has been stubborn and ornery and needs to go back to being easy and fun.

(Such a good world. “Ornery.” Mm.)

Nothing of particular depth to say at the moment. Just hi, still here.