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walkitoutJanuary is the Monday of the year, but also, January tends to be a pretty low-demand month for me. The kids are in school. We are not traveling. Everyone is saturated with social so there’s not a ton going on there.
This year, T. has a job and there are no longer any babysitters in the picture creating random chaos and drama. The kids are fairly orderly, and T.’s doing his own laundry, and they often will help out with keeping the house sort of sane appearing. Also, my standards are about as low as they have ever been. What with one thing and another, I actually have enough time to think about taking on a project and it’s NOT going to be decluttering or cleaning or even planning a vacation. Yes, I will go on vacations. No, I will not spend a lot of time planning them. I’m still doing a fair amount of Duolingo, but I’m not playing any games other than Birzzle when I’m on the phone or whatever. I am listening to podcasts and doing lego. But there’s still a chunk of time, despite all the cooking and so forth.
So, what to write! I’m still not ready to write that JAK monograph, and right now, I’m rereading Mary Stewart and possibly will reread some Alistair MacClean and maybe even the Ngaio Marsh books where Roderick and Troy meet and get to know each other. I’m thinking maybe take the amorphous ideas I have about how these various authors do their thing, and use them in a practical way myself, before articulating them in a monograph about JAK’s work or perhaps more generally. I could finish _Giving Notice_, or retackle NotaB, but I’m not really feeling it. I was developing a romantic suspense idea under the title _Necessary but not Sufficient_, but I’ve got little to go on there. HOWEVER! Back in 2012, I was putting together a teleportation mystery in which Estella Ripley and Arthur Unruh are trying to figure out why the rare but real disappearances while teleporting happen and whether it is possible to rescue the victims. I even set up a NaNoWriMo goal, and I have a first chapter draft, and notes for a second chapter. Super, super, super little to go on. But! I don’t see any reason why I can’t just as easily set that in the near-future of 2023, as the near-future of 2012, which is more than can be said for _Giving Notice_ or even NotaB.
When I originally put this idea together, I was not thinking in terms of romantic suspense, so I’ll have to work out some kind of relationship arc, and I don’t think I ever worked out exactly what was going wrong with the teleportation tech and whether it was solvable and whether the people were savable. So, lots to think about and prep.
I had a great convo with K. I walked 2 loops of the 1 mile while on the phone with her.
I had a nice walk and visit with M.
This year, T. has a job and there are no longer any babysitters in the picture creating random chaos and drama. The kids are fairly orderly, and T.’s doing his own laundry, and they often will help out with keeping the house sort of sane appearing. Also, my standards are about as low as they have ever been. What with one thing and another, I actually have enough time to think about taking on a project and it’s NOT going to be decluttering or cleaning or even planning a vacation. Yes, I will go on vacations. No, I will not spend a lot of time planning them. I’m still doing a fair amount of Duolingo, but I’m not playing any games other than Birzzle when I’m on the phone or whatever. I am listening to podcasts and doing lego. But there’s still a chunk of time, despite all the cooking and so forth.
So, what to write! I’m still not ready to write that JAK monograph, and right now, I’m rereading Mary Stewart and possibly will reread some Alistair MacClean and maybe even the Ngaio Marsh books where Roderick and Troy meet and get to know each other. I’m thinking maybe take the amorphous ideas I have about how these various authors do their thing, and use them in a practical way myself, before articulating them in a monograph about JAK’s work or perhaps more generally. I could finish _Giving Notice_, or retackle NotaB, but I’m not really feeling it. I was developing a romantic suspense idea under the title _Necessary but not Sufficient_, but I’ve got little to go on there. HOWEVER! Back in 2012, I was putting together a teleportation mystery in which Estella Ripley and Arthur Unruh are trying to figure out why the rare but real disappearances while teleporting happen and whether it is possible to rescue the victims. I even set up a NaNoWriMo goal, and I have a first chapter draft, and notes for a second chapter. Super, super, super little to go on. But! I don’t see any reason why I can’t just as easily set that in the near-future of 2023, as the near-future of 2012, which is more than can be said for _Giving Notice_ or even NotaB.
When I originally put this idea together, I was not thinking in terms of romantic suspense, so I’ll have to work out some kind of relationship arc, and I don’t think I ever worked out exactly what was going wrong with the teleportation tech and whether it was solvable and whether the people were savable. So, lots to think about and prep.
I had a great convo with K. I walked 2 loops of the 1 mile while on the phone with her.
I had a nice walk and visit with M.