Hello hello, squiders. I started writing this post on Wednesday before realizing that I was a day late on my promo post and switching to that instead.
(Very embarrassing. I’ve been doing promo posts for years but have never been late on one before. Alas.)
That was Wednesday, and now it is Friday night, and the bulk of the post, which was about how MileHiCon is this weekend and how, instead of doing prep for it (and which needed to happen on Wednesday, as that was my last day off of work before the convention) I was instead descending into existential dread brought on my imposter syndrome.
But I did eventually prep at least a few of my panels (the one causing the most dread, my Sunday morning one about moon colonies or some such, is as of yet untouched), get everything together, discover that my point of sale app that I’ve been using for the last ten years was discontinued in Sept (the dangers of only doing one con a year), find and set up a new point of sale app, and so forth and so on.
Today was very stressful in general–the small, mobile ones had their Halloween parade at school, and then we had a meeting with the special education team, and then I had to go to work and finish up a major project (and everybody came to “help” and had to add in their two cents, which made it more stressful), and then I had to drive across town through a traffic jam and arrived at the con about an hour after I meant to.
But the con itself went quite well today. I got all checked in and learned I could stay and do the indie publishing panel I thought I wouldn’t be able to. My first panel was on plot twists with Connie Willis and Rick Wilber, and it went much better than I feared (my first thought when I looked at who was on the panel with me is that I was wildly outclassed) and Connie was very nice to me, and I ran into some friends I haven’t seen in a while. And the indie publishing panel also went quite swimmingly.
Tomorrow and Sunday we’re potentially getting a foot of snow, so that does put a bit of a damper on things. Fingers crossed for safe driving conditions.
Anyway, I suspect from what I titled this post that I wanted to talk about Nano. I did find my novel idea document and update it, and put it on the cloud, and cross document the other files so everything’s nicely in one place. And I added a few more ideas. For when I am ready to start something new.
And I did sign up for Nano. But the idea is that I will do my revision and count the words there towards my 50K. I really can’t justify starting something new right now. (And, of course, because I’m ignoring them, the other novel ideas have started offering up plots and characters and whatnot. What is up with brains?)
Not sure I can get 50K on the revision. The document is at, oh, 42K right now, and that’s with working on it for the last six months. (I did redo some chapters during the marathon, so we may be closer to 50K, but the point still stands.) Arguably you can’t rush a revision–the point is to make sure you’re fixing everything, after all, but I’ve put together a system. I always paper edit before I start the rewrite, and I’m going to count that as a day of writing (so 2000 words) when I do that. So we’ll see.
If it’s not working, we’ll abandon it and go back to our normal program already in progress. I want this to be the last revision of this book, after all, and if I feel like I’m rushing, I’ll stop.
Anyway, see you guys next week!
