Gubbins

Rather foolishly, I have more or less convinced myself that if I can get a few things out of my head I can go back to work and concentrate.

So here I am. Doing precisely what I want to do instead of what I should be doing, which is a wretched and guilt-laden thing. But as John Ruskin said "Labour without joy is base".

What I want to be doing is writing, as usual. I put together four submissions for Tweet the Meat, dispatched them and felt gleeful about it. There is something immensely satisfying about having completed work which does not extend to actual employment work itself. The answer is to become much more intense about the work I would prefer to be doing, so that it becomes the work I live on. That's going to be an amusing journey, because I have to become a lot less lazy.

There are an assortment of excellent things happening. Two pieces for Celestial Toybox are in the works (one almost done, one still in the planning stages), I'm researching a new market (links etc when I know what it's all about) and working towards finishing a short story that has been around for ages, which rather lost it's way. The last bout of mania kicked off a whole swathe of short stories which I now need to work on, including -

the "Time War" fics.
- a rewrite of "Daleks on Goth", which is now actually not bad.
- a fic about Dhiren Koduri.
- a fic about Roseli
- a fic provisionally entitled "Prisoner of the Daleks", which I now have to retitle because someone has written an actual Doctor Who novel with that title.
- I have to plan and write a fic about Tom the PostHuman, because that's the last part of the characters trilogy, and should be about the fall of Gallifrey, possibly.

Parting Gesture
- which has been "in the works" forever, and needs to be finished.

and a few other things that are currently no more than a frantic scribble or two and an enthused note.

In related happiness: Write Monkey is a lovely thing and those who would like a distraction free writing environment will find it useful. I'm enjoying it. I would be enjoying it a lot more if they made a version for Linux, and I might well make a perm. swap to Ubuntu 9.04, or the next LTS version, and use Write Monkey via WINE, or something similar.

In a week, I shall look back on this post and giggle at my optimism.