I am employed!

An insurance company has hired me as an email & front-end dev and while this is wonderful for my financial situation it is also eating up most of my days. 1.5 hour commute in the morning, 8 hours at work, 2 hour commute home. Such is life.

In order to have time to write I've started keeping Farmer's Hours; in bed by 8pm-ish and then up at 4am. That gives me roughly two hours to work on my stories before starting the slog through across-town traffic to get to the office. It's working out alright as I get solitude and silence during the early hours, and I'm usually able to chat with a friend for an hour or so before they go to bed for the day. Progress on my stories has been a bit slow, but at least there is some progress.

Dæling With Yt
I've converted it from Google Docs into a Scrivener project. I'm torn between trying to map out the plot, figure out where it's not working and do a major rewrite... and just bashing out the last two or three chapters and damn the torpedoes. I started this story just get myself started writing... I never intended for it to be a 'good' story so maybe I should be less picky and just GET. IT. DONE.

Catch Me
I've beat my head against Chapter Six a few times but I'm still not happy with it. It just feels unmotivated... a bunch of events happening with no real point and doing nothing to develop the characters. (Or entertain the reader.) In the chapter I'm throwing a big roadblock in front of our intrepid travellers and they have to struggle around it... and... why? Why bother? Why not just have them get to the next character developing point in the story? I dunno... the roadblock is kind of interesting and Chick, Laura, and Buttercup do at least spend some time interacting and getting to know one another a little better. Maybe that's enough? Or maybe I should can this chapter?

You Are Here
Converted to Scrivener and... that's about it. I've written five chapters--about 35,000 words--and I'd loooove publish the chapters I have finished of this silly story. I'm quite proud of it. But I'm only about 2/3rds of the way done and I really, really want this to be a polished, enjoyable story before it sees the light of day. Being a comedy it's nearly impossible to write it unless I'm in exactly the right state of mind, which I haven't been. Now that I'm employed, my stress-levels should drop & my funny-bone will start twitch-a-twitching again. *fingers crossed*

An Honest Man
This is my story set in the Gentlemanverse, and it is moving along in fits and starts. Partly because I'm skipping ahead to write more interesting sequences that I'm gonna have to stitch together at some point, hoping that it makes sense and is enjoyable to read. Fourteen-ish chapters and roughly 175,000 words so far and I'm somewhere around 2/3rds finished.

...and already taking notes for a sequel.

Those are the main stories I'm working on anyway. Hopefully, I'll have something to publish soon!

(PS: Why doesn't the "Tagged Story" section for blog posts allow multiple stories to be selected?)