The Commitment Report

I started out on the right foot this week. After editing and reformatting the intro and chapter one of Goblin Market, I felt like I could take over the world. So Tuesday, I got cocky. I only had to write one work article Tuesday, and James said Monday night, “You could spend the whole day working on fiction if you want to.” That made me beam with glee, so I did it.

After tooling around on the ‘Net all morning and writing up a blog post, I cracked my knuckles and got to work on edits. By one o’clock that afternoon, chapter two was fully edited with an added 400ish words. I was very happy with it, and just as I was getting ready to save. Some doofus pulled the plug out of my computer… that doofus: me. Fortunately, the autosave backed me up, and I didn’t lose anything.

Upon sighing with relief, I did some last minute formatting and dove into chapter three. I was about two thousand words into the edits, having added just over 500 new words and the power went out. I lost everything. Not just the edits I’d just made, but the edits that were saved before… GONE.

Needless to say, I cried. Then I put on pants and went to the bar for a beer. By the time I got home, I didn’t care anymore. I’d resolved myself to the notion that obviously the edits I’d made weren’t the best they could be and this was the universe’s way of telling me the next ones would be even better.

Wednesday, I took a break, but I did get some fiction writing done in the evening. I added about 800 words to the introduction for Jack in the Green and decided I did not like the direction I was going in on the short story I’ve been writing.

Thursday I got back to the Goblin Market and redid the edits in chapter two. I also started redoing edits and rewrites for chapter three, so I’m almost back on track. To date, I’ve edited 10,557 words in Goblin Market… now I’ve only got 75,550 to go. 0_o It will get done though. Mark my words. It will get done before the end of June.

I also found some time, as I mentioned above, to work on Jack in the Green, which felt good because I’m closer to my 50,000 word goal so i can start podcasting sometime in July. I was even thinking about recording the intro and tossing it into the feed before the end of June.

Dark Journeys is on hold for two weeks, but it will return June 18 with a brand new story. I will drop a teaser and excerpt along with cover art midweek.

I’ve just started edits for the submissions I got for the From the Dark Side Anthology, and will be doing that more as well.

So, overall, it’s been an incredibly productive week. Of course, I always feel like I could do more, but this week I am satisfied and look forward to tackling things again Monday morning.

I hope that whatever you had planned to do, you managed to get it all done and feel satisfied at the end of the week.