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One way to make yourself feel overwhelmed is to take on too many projects; the other is to take on too many responsibilities; the best way is to do the same thing at the same time. We missed our blogpost for yesterday; file it under (a) \u201cyou need to work a little bit harder than you want to\u201d and (b) \u201cbest laid plans sometimes need to be set aside\u201d again, as I ended up (a) trying to finish a bit of documentation, succeeding, but leaving work an hour late, and (b) having an hour and a half of conversations at the local coffeehouse, with only thirty minutes work time. Add to this a weekend mostly spent trying to solve my wife\u2019s Audible problem and working on small press stuff, and I am so far behind on my writing.<\/p>\n
The good news is, I got the first of my puzzles done for my proposed Cinnamon Frost puzzle book. The bad news is, that\u2019s about eight projects deep on the stack of things I should be working on now. Hm, is that an accurate estimate? There\u2019s the revised CLOCKWORK opener, the SPECTRAL IRON revision, the HEX CODE revision, the THIRTY DAYS LATER publishing tasks, edits for the 24HCD Survival Guide, first draft of PHANTOM SILVER, first draft of BOT NET first draft, and the rough draft of FAERY NUMBERS, plus the math groundwork for FAERY NUMBERS, not to mention a whole host of other small writing tasks we\u2019ll lump into one, plus blogging – so I\u2019m working on a pointer to something twelve items deep<\/i> in my stack.<\/p>\n
A proper computer scientist would be appalled, as might my editor for CLOCKWORK (it\u2019s progressing, I promise! but it\u2019s got to be awesome). But the good news is that I got a start on a wholly new project, seizing the inspiration before it evaporated.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s how you catch lightning in a bottle. That and lots of caffeine.<\/p>\n
-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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