Once upon a time, I used to think being a writer meant, well, writing. All the time. If only that were true! When between books, as I am at the moment, I don't even attempt to stick to my 1500 words/day target. There just isn't time. Here's what I got up to in the last week (Monday 5 to Sunday 12), for anyone interested in what I actually spend most of my time doing.
- I delivered re-writes of all four Fixers books to my editor at Scholastic;
- re-wrote outlines for The Resurrected Man and The Crooked Letter TV shows, as per feedback received while in LA;
- reread the story notes of Magic Dirt, seeking inspiration for a podcast about my fifteen year-old story "A Map of the Mines of Barnath";
- ditto my story "Ungentle Fire" in the forthcoming Dragon Book;
- was interviewed live on ABC radio at the Royal Adelaide Show (and ate a large amount of junk food afterwards);
- attended the Ruby/ABAF Awards;
- had a Skype conversation, transcribed some notes, and looked over an outline for a project I haven't mentioned here yet (ooh, mysterious!);
- attended a meeting of the SA Writers' Centre Board;
- took Christobel Mattingley's place on the SA Writers' Festival "Fact or Fiction" panel, down at the beautiful Wirra Wirra vineyards in the McLaren Vale, and chaired the "First Book" panel;
- read and annotated submissions for a retreat I'll be co-taking in a few weeks;
- signed up to sit on a grant assessment panel doling out money for young South Australian writers;
- suggested some spec fic titles for the Big Book Club's December/January selections;
- caught up on the parallel import situation for the Australian Society of Authors;
- revived my LJ and wrote this post. :-)
I also bought the new Steve Roach album,
Destination Beyond, and Deepspace's
World Ocean Atlas. (That's not really work, I know, but these albums will probably comprise my main writing music for the coming weeks, so it's kinda related.)
This wasn't an exceptional week, but it probably was a little busier than normal, thanks to the awards night and the festival.
How was yours? Did you manage to get some writing done? If so, well done. I am jealous!
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