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

[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!