Well, I woke up feeling a touch more resilient — I dealt with one difficult e-mail that I’d been having trouble coping with. It’s unclear whether that whole situation is settled at this point, but at least people aren’t waiting on me for a response now, which is something.
And then, perhaps carried on the wave of that success, I opened another e-mail and sent a response on a thread from…May 2022. SIGH. There was a book editor interested in looking at something of mine, and there was really no reason not to send her the book a year ago.
I have four completed novels right now (two SF, one fantasy, one mainstream), that I really ought to be either trying to sell or committing to revising. And yet, they sit. I think it’s just anxiety — I keep wanting to hold onto the books, as if magically, they’re going to get better, sitting on my computer, untouched.
I’ve offered now, though — we’ll see what she says. Go, me.
I think I need to lock myself into a room somewhere and just answer e-mails for a day or two, get through all the stressful ones.
Gods, that sounds dreary.
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Plan for today — I think I’m finally healthy enough to take some deliberate exericse, in a low-key way — I’m going to go put on my gym shoes and walk on the treadmill for 30 minutes while reading a book. After that:
– finish adding spices to the spices I toasted last night, grind curry powder
– bag up curry powder
– water hanging baskets and waiting plants on porch
– set two roses (“Bonica” and “Julia Child”) to soaking for planting tomorrow
– do a blog post about planting some native perennials
That’s probably as much as I can manage before I need to go teach (possibly more than I can manage). Then campus from 11-4, teach two classes — one of them, I’m being observed by a colleague, which is always a little nerve-wracking, though I support it as good pedagogical practice, and it’ll be particularly helpful at the moment since I’m going up for promotion this coming year, so a recent teaching observation report will be good to have in my file.
In the evening (or tomorrow):
– pick up some sweetened condensed milk and if needed, cashews
– make passionfruit marshmallows
– make cashew milk toffee
– start seeds?
– draft a scene of new Patreon story?
– revise opening to Liminal Space, based on what I figured out in doing the screenplay adaptation (I think only 1-2 hrs of work)
Pictured: Hibiscus. Edible, though it’s so pretty, sort of seems a shame to eat it. 