Huzzah for unstalling
Feb. 28th, 2005 02:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonI've been so busy at work I've hardly had a spare thought to myself, and this weekend I had to do an enforced housecleaning. Allegedly, the manager has to do a "air conditioner inspection" today. Last month is was a "termite inspection." Frankly, I think the owner just wants him to do some snooping, but there's this pesky law that they can't enter apartments without 24-hour written notice. My apartment was still cleanish from last time, but I do have an amazing talent for cluttering a space in a short amount of time. And then there's the laundry. I swear it breeds on the floor of my bedroom. Er, I mean, in the hamper, of course. I would never pile laundry on the floor.
I'm woefully behind on my correspondence, so if I owe you an email, it's not because I'm being uppity, I'm just finding it hard to get everything done in the course of a day. I'm behind on crits to one person, but slightly ahead on everyone else, so at least that's not adding to the guilt pile.
I had a two-day stall starting chapter 16 last week. One part of me wanted to switch timelines to 1968 again; the other part wanted one more chapter in the 6th century. The thing is, it felt like a change was due right square in my middle where these things usually reside. So I was pretty sure a change was due. But I've got one more piece of significant business to take care of in the 6th c. when Caius is a certain age before advancing him on to the next age bracket. I let it go and concentrated on other things over the weekend (besides laundry). I apparently made some accommodation with myself because today when my writing session started, I went for a return to '68. I'll let Caius age in the next segment.
Who knows if it'll work out or stay that way in the rewrites but in the meantime switching accomplished what I most needed at this juncture: it got me unstalled.
Huzzah.
I'm woefully behind on my correspondence, so if I owe you an email, it's not because I'm being uppity, I'm just finding it hard to get everything done in the course of a day. I'm behind on crits to one person, but slightly ahead on everyone else, so at least that's not adding to the guilt pile.
I had a two-day stall starting chapter 16 last week. One part of me wanted to switch timelines to 1968 again; the other part wanted one more chapter in the 6th century. The thing is, it felt like a change was due right square in my middle where these things usually reside. So I was pretty sure a change was due. But I've got one more piece of significant business to take care of in the 6th c. when Caius is a certain age before advancing him on to the next age bracket. I let it go and concentrated on other things over the weekend (besides laundry). I apparently made some accommodation with myself because today when my writing session started, I went for a return to '68. I'll let Caius age in the next segment.
Who knows if it'll work out or stay that way in the rewrites but in the meantime switching accomplished what I most needed at this juncture: it got me unstalled.
Huzzah.