Choosing Major Projects When I Could Just Choose Sleep

As the last days of 2022 approach, my schedule is somehow busier than ever despite having few friends and very few nearby family members, no children, and no day job.

I finished and posted my Christmas-time Strangefrost novella, a sequel to the novel-length work I posted in January earlier this year. It’s a lot of fun, and was exactly the change of pace I needed after all the work I did on book 1 and book 2 of my original stories.

Next is querying agents for book 1, and I’m ready for it. I also wanted to get book 2 into a shape resembling a first draft, so I can send it to my beta readers before the end of the year. We’ll see how that goes. Yesterday, I opened it to make a PDF and ended up reading the first eight chapters unexpectedly, so either I wrote something pretty compelling already or I will procrastinate for anything.

We’ve also decided to do some major reshifting around the house, and it requires selling or otherwise getting rid of a number of large items, going through boxes, donating, trashing, cleaning, and organizing. I made a step-by-step list so there’s no question of what needs to happen next, but I can’t help going off-script to do things like using our extra stone edging to mark off the fairy garden I’m going to plant next year. To be fair, that at least got the leftover downspout, dragon spout, edging, and stone slabs out of the garage, which needs to be cleaned.

Of course, we’re doing this now, between getting a new tattoo (so, limited range of motion for a week or so) and having surgery at the very end of the month (Merry Christmas to me! But no lifting or straining for 6 weeks lmao), so it all feels very rushed. Add in Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s, and I just don’t know when I’ll be able to get back to Assassin’s Creed: Origins again.

So the two goals for the next two weeks: send those query letters and finish the first draft of book 2. Wish me luck, y’all. In the meantime, I wish you a happy yule.

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