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More Of This Crap

Oh, for the love of St Swithin! The forecast for today is 10-14 inches of snow in my locale. I guess that’s kind of fair. We dodged the bullet on the last nor’easter so we get to deal with this one. Wow, enough with this wintry nonsense already.

Switching Gears

While I do have quite a few more videos to do, I need to start timesharing with the novel that’s burning in my brain. Some projects can only be put off for so long. Actually, when I was a programmer at the county I found that while I could churn and burn through a particular project for a certain period in order to see to its successful conclusion it was a lot better for me to be able to switch gears and give some time to other projects in order to keep the main project from getting sort of stale.

It’s somewhat like the epiphany one gets while taking a shower in the morning. You sit there pondering and cogitating over a difficult issue trying to get your project done and you just hit a brick wall. I usually found that when I hit the wall in this way, it was time to change directions and work on something else entirely so that my subconscious could grind away on the problem. Cleansing the palate periodically helps. That’s generally when the lightbulb comes on for you. When you’re not actively thinking about something, it tends to come across in Eureka fashion when you’re doing something utterly unrelated.

So, in the vein of “All Work and No Play Makes Rob A Dull Boy” I spent last weekend binging some shows I’d gotten behind on and reading some of the graphic novels that have been stacking up on me. The side-effect of that is that I’m back into superhero mode. So, that gets me back into writing a novel I started a while back. I’ve got a number of ideas and resources associated with that project.

GeezerQuest

If we get as much snow as is being forecast, I’ll be getting my exercise with the snow shovel. Oh well, I can do the 8 step thing when things clear up a bit.

If Mother Nature Zigs, I Zag

I wrote a lot of ‘Red Queen‘ wrapped up in a blanket, cramped up while watching the snow come down. ~Victoria Aveyard

Hopefully, the power won’t go out no matter how deep the freaking snow gets. Even if it does, it won’t impede my pencil. I’m back to writing my superhero-genre novel and I go old school: pencil and paper. The only thing I need is a bit of space to sprawl out and that window into another world through which I record the doings of the Sentinels and their adversaries.

We’ve got blankets and candles if worse comes to worst, but I don’t think we’ll be hit all that hard. The forecast suggests sun and marginally above freezing the next few days, so we’ll keep our decorative blanket of fluff a while but it will begin melting away in fairly short order.

I’m keeping it short and sweet today. Not much to say. Will disclose more later. Trying to save my creative writing juices for the novel.