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Update 30/12
Well, here we are: the end of another year! I'm just home after a week away with family, and I've got another whole week before I go back to work, so I'm sitting happily in that gentle place of having all the free time you want. The week just gone was one of sitting still (and reading more books that I have read in three months!). The week ahead I think will have a little more of that New Year's "improvements" spirit: on getting home just now, I have given my kitchen a thorough clean, and made a little pile of things to get rid of after looking at the room with fresh eyes. I have never done resolutions, and I don't plan to start now, but last year we used January to tackle some of the Stuff that builds up when you live in one place for a long time, and I think it will be good to have another (maybe slightly less intense) round of that.
Reading
Over my week away, I have torn through Provenance by Ann Leckie, The Wounded Sky by Diane Duane and Taste by Stanley Tucci. Reading Provenance reminded me that I enjoyed Ancillary Justice and have been meaning to read the sequels, so I ordered Sword while I was away, since someone gave me Mercy a couple of birthdays ago not realising it was the third one! I didn't think Provenance was quite as good as Justice, but it reminded me of the things I loved about Justice enough to whet my appetite for getting back into the trilogy!
Writing
This is going to be much more of a focus in the coming week! While I was away, I had one afternoon of sort of doodling words and ideas, a bit like the equivalent of tidying off one small corner of a room to make it feel like you did some cleaning. Since I'm back at home now, and will have far fewer social distractions once everyone else gets back to work on Tuesday, I want to go out somewhere and have a dedicated writing session at least two or three times in the week. I don't have to work on my main project; this is just about making time and space for creativity to happen, whatever it looks like.
In exciting news on the other-people's-writing front, I found out this week that someone from a writing website I used to hang out on when I was younger has a book deal for a project I remember them working on, and will be getting published in April! I can't wait to get my hands on a copy and see how the final version turned out!
Reading
Over my week away, I have torn through Provenance by Ann Leckie, The Wounded Sky by Diane Duane and Taste by Stanley Tucci. Reading Provenance reminded me that I enjoyed Ancillary Justice and have been meaning to read the sequels, so I ordered Sword while I was away, since someone gave me Mercy a couple of birthdays ago not realising it was the third one! I didn't think Provenance was quite as good as Justice, but it reminded me of the things I loved about Justice enough to whet my appetite for getting back into the trilogy!
Writing
This is going to be much more of a focus in the coming week! While I was away, I had one afternoon of sort of doodling words and ideas, a bit like the equivalent of tidying off one small corner of a room to make it feel like you did some cleaning. Since I'm back at home now, and will have far fewer social distractions once everyone else gets back to work on Tuesday, I want to go out somewhere and have a dedicated writing session at least two or three times in the week. I don't have to work on my main project; this is just about making time and space for creativity to happen, whatever it looks like.
In exciting news on the other-people's-writing front, I found out this week that someone from a writing website I used to hang out on when I was younger has a book deal for a project I remember them working on, and will be getting published in April! I can't wait to get my hands on a copy and see how the final version turned out!