Catching up

[azhure]

I am slowly, slowly catching up on work.  Reviews, mostly, because I am a bad reviewer and tend to take ages to getting around to reading review books and then actually writing up the reviews.

Having contractors around the house* is actually good for me, because I like to actually look like I’m working ;)  I should pretend there are people around all the time.  I often wonder if I’m the kind of person who would work better at a coffee shop or something.  But no one really works at coffee shops here anyway, and the closest one wouldn’t be too amenable to it, I think.  Not to mention that lugging my laptop around would suck.

Discipline.  I used to have it.

I’m still making slow progress on The White Raven.  I’m half thinking that I should go back to posting my word counts, for I tend to be more productive when I actually have to be accountable.  Perhaps.  It would help if the other novel (tentatively entitled Never) would stop taking over my brain.  I’m placating it by working up the characters at the moment, and I might actually venture into some outlining (which is very unusual for me).

* We’re getting new curtains and blinds put into most rooms in the house.  Which means that we have the old curtains and blinds scattered everywhere right now, and the whole house smells like new-things chemicals.  The curtains and blinds look rather awesome, though.

[cross-posted from my website]

Comments

[starla80.livejournal.com]

Source foods in Northbridge are the kind of cafe you can work in, I see people with laptops in their all the time. They also have a net connection you can use as well, I think. Plus yummy organic vegan friendly food!

Love the new curtains, the place is looking great. I'm going down south next week but we should definitely meet when I get back. :)

[azhure.livejournal.com]

Yes! I want to meet you! :D

[gothick-matt.livejournal.com]

I should pretend there are people around all the time.

I think there's an old Zen adage that goes something like, "when you have guests, behave as you would when alone. And when alone, behave as you would when you have guests."

When I was writing fiction, I found that coffee shops were a good place for me to write, but then I'm in the middle of Bristol. As long as you follow the unwritten rules of writers in coffee shops¹ you're spoiled for choice around here.

¹ Okay, I'll write the unwritten rules: be nice, don't take up a whole table when they're busy, actually buy a coffee now and then, and try to look like a hot new novelist rather than a passing tramp :)

[hyperbard.livejournal.com]

Wow, I didn't even know you were a reviewer; somehow I missed it. I too do reviews, and take forever on them. At the moment, I'm more focused on editing/beta-reading for other people, than doing either reviewing or my own writing. But hey, what kind of books do you review?

[azhure.livejournal.com]

I review for Horrorscope Online(http://ozhorrorscope.blogspot.com/), so ostensibly it's all horror and dark fiction. In reality, I tend to pick up more of the fantasy and urban fantasy stuff. I haven't done a lot of reviewing lately, though, which is bad of me.

[hyperbard.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I read a lot of the fantasy/urban fantasy too... my reviewing is at the moment all illness/disability book related for www.lovinghealing.com . Not a lot for them lately, though, either. Cool that you review horror!

[thedowngirl.livejournal.com]

I don't know how stalker-ish this is, but I was skimming through livejournals and came across yours.
I have to say, your writing, no matter what topic you're discussing, is very addicting.
I love finding old souls.