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babarnettThe Productivity Report since Wednesday:
Reading: Read two more stories in Prime Codex. "The Disenchantment of Kivron Ox-master" by Elaine Isaak was quite a fun one.
Exercise: Still taking it easy on my knee, which is now a lovely shade of yellow tinged with pink and purple. I've done a little bit of Pilates and a little bit on the elliptical strider, but not much else--unless Wii Sports counts.
Music: I think I've made up for taking it easy with the exercise by putting in more time on music. Piano lesson and choir rehearsal Wednesday night, followed by lots of time practicing piano and working on solo pieces for two upcoming performances.
Writing Business: Stories have been running in and out the door, making such a fuss that it feels like there have been more of them flitting about than there really are. Two stories have come since Tuesday night, and they both went right back out the door. Meanwhile, one of their siblings finally made up his mind about which slush pile he wanted to visit, and another story who had been moping around waiting for an appropriate market to open finally got to grab his stuff and head out the door.
On another writing business note, today I was pleased to find out that Flash Fiction Online has now been approved as a SFWA-qualifying market--not only because it's a great market, but because that means I now have a SFWA-qualifying credit to my name!
Writing: About 1,000 more words done on the zombie story. There unfortunately wasn't much time for writing the past few days, so most of that wordage was from earlier today. This story keeps surprising me, which has been fun. I didn't have much of a clue where I was going with it when I started, but I certainly didn't expect to have a half-zombified character sitting in the middle of post-apocalyptic Philadelphia singing an aria from Parsifal.
Speaking of music working its way into my writing...
Despite being a musician, for the longest time I found it difficult to write about music--I just didn't know how to put my experience of it into the right words. But when writing the first draft of my novel, it seemed appropraite to have one of my characters playing a lute in his first scene, and I realized that I finally did have the right words. Maybe those words had been there all along and I had only just learned how to tap into them. Whatever the case, it definitely opened up something in my brain, because music has been creeping into my writing more and more since then. My writing stable now has a story about a lyre player in a city where the arts have been outlawed (recently got a hold notice from ASIM for that one, so fingers crossed), a soldier who keeps his soul in a violin (that'll be getting a major rewrite in the near future), an immortal woman cursed to feed on the songs/spirits of other women (only recently started making the submission rounds), and now a poor opera-loving chap who's been bitten by a zombie.
Reading: Read two more stories in Prime Codex. "The Disenchantment of Kivron Ox-master" by Elaine Isaak was quite a fun one.
Exercise: Still taking it easy on my knee, which is now a lovely shade of yellow tinged with pink and purple. I've done a little bit of Pilates and a little bit on the elliptical strider, but not much else--unless Wii Sports counts.
Music: I think I've made up for taking it easy with the exercise by putting in more time on music. Piano lesson and choir rehearsal Wednesday night, followed by lots of time practicing piano and working on solo pieces for two upcoming performances.
Writing Business: Stories have been running in and out the door, making such a fuss that it feels like there have been more of them flitting about than there really are. Two stories have come since Tuesday night, and they both went right back out the door. Meanwhile, one of their siblings finally made up his mind about which slush pile he wanted to visit, and another story who had been moping around waiting for an appropriate market to open finally got to grab his stuff and head out the door.
On another writing business note, today I was pleased to find out that Flash Fiction Online has now been approved as a SFWA-qualifying market--not only because it's a great market, but because that means I now have a SFWA-qualifying credit to my name!
Writing: About 1,000 more words done on the zombie story. There unfortunately wasn't much time for writing the past few days, so most of that wordage was from earlier today. This story keeps surprising me, which has been fun. I didn't have much of a clue where I was going with it when I started, but I certainly didn't expect to have a half-zombified character sitting in the middle of post-apocalyptic Philadelphia singing an aria from Parsifal.
Speaking of music working its way into my writing...
Despite being a musician, for the longest time I found it difficult to write about music--I just didn't know how to put my experience of it into the right words. But when writing the first draft of my novel, it seemed appropraite to have one of my characters playing a lute in his first scene, and I realized that I finally did have the right words. Maybe those words had been there all along and I had only just learned how to tap into them. Whatever the case, it definitely opened up something in my brain, because music has been creeping into my writing more and more since then. My writing stable now has a story about a lyre player in a city where the arts have been outlawed (recently got a hold notice from ASIM for that one, so fingers crossed), a soldier who keeps his soul in a violin (that'll be getting a major rewrite in the near future), an immortal woman cursed to feed on the songs/spirits of other women (only recently started making the submission rounds), and now a poor opera-loving chap who's been bitten by a zombie.
