My brain's empty
May. 14th, 2005 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julesjonesNo writing today - I'm taking a break for a day or two after finishing the Spindrift draft. It was rather odd not doing any writing after the last couple of weeks of fairly intense writing, and I had the same "my brain's empty" feeling I had after finishing Journey Into Freedom a couple of years ago. It's quite disconcerting to have been holding a novel-length story in my head for several months, and then not needing to any more.
I never did do the submission package I was going to work on as soon as I'd recovered from the jetlag... Once I'd started work on Spindrift again, I couldn't switch out of it into another universe, not well enough to work on a synopsis. I'll try prodding it tomorrow, but I don't want to drop out of the Spindrift universe altogether, because I have an idea for a short story following up what happens to two of the secondary characters.
I've just seen the proof of the proposed cover for Spindrift, and it's gorgeous. I'll put up a pointer to it once it goes up on the Loose Id website.
What I did today instead of writing... For the second time in two weeks, went to Ikea and escaped without having bought anything that wasn't already on a shopping list. Today's haul included two bookcases, on the grounds that the "to be read" piles have been breeding, and have also been joined by the "I've read them but the bookcases are so stuffed *and* disorganised that I can't get these ones back in" piles. I know how long some of those piles have been sitting there, because it included the relevant piles of books bought on last year's Worldcon trip. Only now have I finally managed to sort out the newly acquired Heyers, which were bought in two different bookshops on the principle of "They're 50c each and usually impossible to find, I don't *care* if I can't remember which ones I already have." Which is why I am now the proud owner of three copies of Cousin Kate. :-)
I have also applied copper tape to assorted plant pots, because I am tired of slimy little bastards regarding my new plants as dinner. I picked twenty of them out of a single pot the other night...
I never did do the submission package I was going to work on as soon as I'd recovered from the jetlag... Once I'd started work on Spindrift again, I couldn't switch out of it into another universe, not well enough to work on a synopsis. I'll try prodding it tomorrow, but I don't want to drop out of the Spindrift universe altogether, because I have an idea for a short story following up what happens to two of the secondary characters.
I've just seen the proof of the proposed cover for Spindrift, and it's gorgeous. I'll put up a pointer to it once it goes up on the Loose Id website.
What I did today instead of writing... For the second time in two weeks, went to Ikea and escaped without having bought anything that wasn't already on a shopping list. Today's haul included two bookcases, on the grounds that the "to be read" piles have been breeding, and have also been joined by the "I've read them but the bookcases are so stuffed *and* disorganised that I can't get these ones back in" piles. I know how long some of those piles have been sitting there, because it included the relevant piles of books bought on last year's Worldcon trip. Only now have I finally managed to sort out the newly acquired Heyers, which were bought in two different bookshops on the principle of "They're 50c each and usually impossible to find, I don't *care* if I can't remember which ones I already have." Which is why I am now the proud owner of three copies of Cousin Kate. :-)
I have also applied copper tape to assorted plant pots, because I am tired of slimy little bastards regarding my new plants as dinner. I picked twenty of them out of a single pot the other night...