Week of March 28-April 3

[mrissa]

Writing done:
--3K of Not The Moose (harumph)
--picking at other things, as usual
--working on @#&$ synopses/query letters/etc.
--finished "The Beast's Apprentice," which turned out to be a novelette. Oops. I hate marketing novelettes. There is no advantage to a novelette, except that it pays more than a short story if you can sell it to the smaller pool of markets. Bah. Also, I don't like writing them as well as I like writing either short stories or novels. But this one was all right at this point.

I can tell I'm much less broken of brain than I was in October, because the scenes that were impossible then just flew off my fingers this week. No more staring at "The Beast's Apprentice" mournfully, or balefully, or any other -fully. And now it's one less thing to think of.

Frankly, I need one less thing to think of this week. I have pre-MiniCon jitters/introverted reaction something awful, exacerbated by the fact that I seem to have agreed to be on a panel (though I haven't heard from the person I e-mailed, so maybe they won't expect me to actually do it). And we're going straight from that into a brief visit from some very welcome college friends and their little one, whom we have not yet met.

I'm reminding myself that the sane reaction to this is not to crank out as many words per day as humanly possible tomorrow through Thursday, as showing up at the con with a twisted hunch in my back and falling over snoring during the first panel is unlikely to make a good impression with anyone. Any of you who feel like e-mailing me a reminder to relax and calm down round about Tuesday will have my gratitude. I'm sure I'll enjoy this con thing once I get there. It's just that this is a new flavor of con for me, and it features very many cool people, and very many people in general, and I'm spooked.

Comments

[ionas.livejournal.com]

Would it help to think of yourself as a window--gathering interesting data to make a con report for those of us who badly would like to go to Minicon, but cannot?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I think the problem is more one that I'll have in advance than one that I'll have at the time. While I intend to make a good con report if I can, I also know that my personality is not one that's very good at half measures. And there are people there who know me, and there is that whole panel thing, so I can't step entirely into the background. So I'll probably have Gregarious Girl on for the weekend, and it's exhausting being her. Sometimes fun, sometimes worth it, but exhausting. (She is also sometimes cute, which we all know I am not.)

Eh. Probably it's just that I haven't been getting enough sleep. I do appreciate soothing suggestions, and I'll keep the con report in mind.

[ionas.livejournal.com]

If a con report happens, that will be splendid--but do not feel obliged. Just a line about having had a good time is a pleasure to read!

Sending soothing thoughts your way....