To Do List

Work is finally starting to level off and I hope to be back to a much more normal schedule in a two weeks or so. Maybe I will be able to get a little more sleep

But that means that I have more time on my hands again so it is time for the next TO DO LIST!

1. Finish the final edit of my book.

• Do I need another beta read before I put it out to be slaughtered on the internet?
• Do I want to try and get query letter started?

Start prepping for a hiking trip in the fall?

• Need to get a backpack.
• Decide which section of the AT I want to try, need maps and guides.
• Decide if I want to go back to Panthertown in NC.
• Car camping at the beach?

Horse show in August

• Need to start practicing in my tall boots and gloves again.
• Need to buy and new pair of breeches, show gloves, polo shirt.

Want to get more submission going out, have gotten 3 rejections this month.

Budgeting for the Win! Need to re-evaluate the budget so I am not always so broke.

Start looking for classes to take again.

• Do I want to try and start taking a college course next spring?
• Classes in what? Archery, Pottery, more painting classes, guitar lessons, writing group?

What will be the Summer and Fall project?

What I do

I really hate when people ask what I do for a living.

I never seem to have a pat answer. If I say Health Care IT, no one knows what I am talking about.
If I just say I work in IT they seem to think I sit at a computer programing all day long.

The worst part is that is not how I want to be identified. I want to respond that I am a writer and my day job is IT.

Thanks to the day job there has been precious little productive writing lately with a big work event coming up next month but I am still trying to crank out a few lines a day.

Shrugs, it will improve. I know that.

Daily Prompt: INTJ

Reblogged from The Daily Post:

Do parties and crowds fill you with energy, or send you scurrying for peace and quiet?

I have been having more and more Introvert moments at work and in life in general lately. An announcement that we will be roaming the halls working on computers out of the office made me panic. Yep, actual contact with people I don't know occasionally means a panic attack. I keep having to explain the difference between Real Life Friends and Online friends to people. I have quite a few online people I consider friends however in RL I have one, the rest of the people I talk to or deal with day-to-day are just acquaintances. I have always been like that, I have one or two really good friends who I would probably kill people for...and everyone else is outside of my real trust zone. The are people I know and talk to but who have shown that I cannot fully trust them in one way or another. Keep have it shoved in my face that I am not at work to be myself or to make friends. Apparently, this week is one of those reminders. Parties are draining for me. I tend to wind up in a corner with someone I know listening to the conversations around me but not actively participating unless it is a topic I am interested in. Am I the only one so does crap like this? One INTJ to another...

Updates

Digging myself out of the pit of cold medicines and fan fiction obsession. I think I have read every fanfic of Clint Barton/Hawkeye there is on the Internet in the last two weeks. Yes, the obsessions are back but luckily the manic twitchy energy is not, no 3 AM cleaning sprees at least. Even had three people today tell me I look like I am losing weight which is always nice when you know you look like hell as you blow your nose and your lips bleed from too many fever nights.

I have several fan fictions that I am writing myself and have plotted out new scenes for the book and its sequel. Several plot bunnies for various things have been fleshed out and will be tossed out to the masses on my Blue Ink Asides blog later this week.

The Podcasts are a Go! I am in research mode and have decided to just talk and see what happens, rather like these update posts I am waiting on my mic to arrive since the one in my computer sounds like I am underwater but you should be seeing new content arriving soon

Trying to ingore the want to buy new moleskin notebooks and the Dead Sara album I have been drooling over.
Later Peeps.

Fear

January was my month of relief. The book was mostly complete and off to get packaged as an ebook. I took the month off of working on my book so I could get out of the editing rut and get my head wrapped around my characters again.

February was my month of terror. I was terrified about publishing my book. I had panic attacks thinking about how I needed to find an agent and a publisher. I still am terrified about this but I have allowed myself to have time to deal with this. I don’t have to do any of this “right now” so I am letting it idle while I try and finish the edits to my novel and plan out my next steps.

I am planning for March to be my getting shit together but as we all know plans tend to fall apart. Still, fingers crossed.

Why Superhero Deaths Have Become Meaningless

Reblogged from Entertainment:

If ever a situation called for a “Holy ” exclamation, it’s this one: Robin, Batman’s under-age crime-fighting sidekick, is dead. News of his four-color demise (in the eighth issue of D.C. Comics’ Batman, Incorporated — on sale now) was leaked to the New York Post. But you could be forgiven for feeling just a little bored by his "passing."

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Coming Soon

Honestly this terrifies me but it has been stuck in my head. Soon I hope to start recording podcasts to post here. Maybe only once a week but you should soon start seeing the links

http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/00-podcast-tutorial-four-ps.htm