Good news, squiders, I do have Monkey Island 3 and 4 in digital form, so it’s just the Telltale 5th game that’s currently inaccessible, unless I find a disk drive somewhere that I can play a game off of. (It’s $15 on Steam, but silly to buy a game that I already own. The bigger, mobile one has an external CD drive that he’ll let me borrow.)
Anyway.
July was…wow. A lot. And it sounds like it was a lot for many of my creative friends. Also, too damn hot.
School starts soon, though, and I know my whole family is looking forward to going back to our normal routine. And I need to buckle down and get to work, so I can reach my goals as well.
So, from a writing standpoint, here’s what I hope to get done this month (admittedly perhaps a little optimistic, but when has that stopped me?):
- Continue the critique marathon with Book 1 and make changes as necessary (3 weeks left, including this one)
- In-person critique group meeting later in the month
- Write a query letter and synopsis (and have those looked at by other people as well)
- Make a list of agents to query
- Outline and do set up for new SkillShare class
- Outline at least four new short story ideas
- Hopefully write said stories
Ambitious? Maybe! I just need to make sure to focus. But with the school year starting, there is stuff to do–make the schedule for my Cub Scout den and the pack as a whole, learn new school policies and procedures (the bigger, mobile one is starting a new school), go to a whole bunch of meetings about clubs and sports and what have you.
But nice to be branching out a bit. Once this draft is finalized and the submission stuff is ready, I’ll move on to my next project while I’m querying. Nice to be working on something different, though of course once I finished Book 1 I got a ton of ideas for Book 2, but no reason to touch that at the moment.
How was your summer, squiders?
