Adventure Day 3: Welcome Back, Jack

Wow. The more I focus on The Broken Jack, the more I realize how much it had slipped away from me. Instead of jumping in and writing (actually, editing), I’m finding myself wanting to review the whole thing before I make big changes, to make sure it still says what I think it does. I am so happy to have this time to focus on the work. Actually, though, I need to take some time away from it to prepare a submission of Taxi Adventure for my writing group. The books are so different from each other, though–The Broken Jack is dark and anxious and kind of somber, while Taxi Adventure is upbeat and funny and accidentally quirky–that I’m concerned about the mood from each polluting the other, or that going from one to the other will keep each from being the most it could be. We’ll see.

On the business side, I’m getting my website under control, slowly. I’m working out a way to re-tag all my entries, and I’m trying very hard to speed it up without moving it to another host, though I’m losing confidence that I will be able to. And, though this may be more on the personal side, I thinned out my tools and began to weed out our storage closet. It’s part of the effort to make my life deliberate: simple and organized, and therefore powerful and free.

I thought of another benefit to my morning-write/afternoon-business schedule: morning actually begins just after midnight. Sometimes (as in, pretty frequently) I’m wide awake after midnight. Now, if I want, I can just write all night without feeling guilty, and without worrying about having to get up in the morning. I couldn’t do that before without paying for the lack of sleep the next day at the day job (and after). How cool is that?