Big Ed's PlaceThere’s always a catch
So I tried my new approach this past week and took my laptop to use during my lunch writing periods. It went well, but I discovered a catch. One actually has to have a free lunch period. I had two working lunches and a third was cut so short it wasn’t even worth getting the laptop out of its case.
I managed a little bit of progress on Deep Dish. I scripted two more pages and did the detailed outline for two more, so I now have 1-19 and 23-24 scripted and 20-22 and 25-39 through the detailed outlining. It’s not much, but in two lunch periods, it was about all I could do. It was certainly a bit better than doing it longhand, though.
And unfortunately that catch of “available time” popped up in other places. What little evening time I had was spent on the ebook project (watch this space–ebook of The Ugly One coming sometime in the next couple of months) and working with Tzratzk on the art. I now have pages 1-3 from him, fully illustrated, and they look good. That’s the minimum for looking for publishers, so as soon as I get enough detailed outlining done to confirm my page length, I can start shopping it around.
Which brings that ‘catch’ back into play. I’ve got 25 more pages to do detailed outlining on. At 2 a week, that’s a couple of months, which is really much longer than I’d like. That also assumes the current pace.
Which is probably a bad assumption because work’s going to heat up again in September, and we’re going to start a major home renovation project (it’s needed and it’s time). So it looks like it’s going to be a constant battle for free time to work on my writing projects.
The solution is, of course, obvious. I just need to win the lottery. Of course, that would mean buying a ticket, which I haven’t done. I guess there’s always a catch.