Writing Status
Dec. 6th, 2025 04:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nyykiYesterday my editor and I did an extended session, around five and a half hours, and finished the editing pass for Indispensable. This one already has a cover. It's about 210 pages, and it's one of the "July Surprise" stories. There are four more novels to edit, all in the 300+ page range. One of them is getting a cover next, two are part of a trilogy or more and those don't have any covers yet, though the series has covers defined in detail so it may be a set of covers generated in Word. The trilogy is being held up regarding covers because the first one is probably the most complex cover in the batch
This month is off for the writing group I'm in (and if you want you can be in it too, as long as you submit something every couple of months that relates to the writing prompt we're given) because this month is so busy for a lot of people – not so much for me, because I'm not doing anything for the holidays; none of my friends are doing anything where they'd invite others to join them, and I don't find any reason to celebrate them alone, because they're about community (so much for counting noses and maintaining connections). In prior years I spent it writing, but none of the things I've got in my Work in Progress folder inspire me to work on them right now; I'm facing the possibility that when we get those four novels edited and with covers and the gamut up online for people to pay me to read, my writing output may be done. I'm okay with this, something that surprises me a lot, but doesn't bother me as much as I thought it might.
This month is off for the writing group I'm in (and if you want you can be in it too, as long as you submit something every couple of months that relates to the writing prompt we're given) because this month is so busy for a lot of people – not so much for me, because I'm not doing anything for the holidays; none of my friends are doing anything where they'd invite others to join them, and I don't find any reason to celebrate them alone, because they're about community (so much for counting noses and maintaining connections). In prior years I spent it writing, but none of the things I've got in my Work in Progress folder inspire me to work on them right now; I'm facing the possibility that when we get those four novels edited and with covers and the gamut up online for people to pay me to read, my writing output may be done. I'm okay with this, something that surprises me a lot, but doesn't bother me as much as I thought it might.
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Date: 2025-12-09 12:03 pm (UTC)It’s hard to create stuff when your spirit is low and your emotions are not really engaged with your life (as signified by the “blah”, implying boredom). I hope your local friends change their minds about hosting winter holidays, and that you find some cheer this year, that the things you have produced bring others joy, which brings you joy. I hope for an upward spiral of good things for you in this cold end of the year, and every day after.
And even if none of the hoped-for things happen? I will still be your friend, will still be calling you during the beginning of the weeks, still showing up to hang out in the limited forms available. Maybe it’s not much, but it’s what I’ve got. *again hugs again*