Mhairi Simpson

Have read a couple of things this morning that tempted me to talk about bitterness and how it can ruin one’s chances of achieving anything, but I decided not to. Instead…

Well, the flailing has begun. The person who has been waiting so patiently for Night Shift is very close to actually getting it. I hope to hear back from betas by Sunday. After that, there will be emailing, followed by nausea and possibly vomiting, and that may or may not be helped by the large quantities of chocolate I suspect I will consume in between times :S

On the other hand, I do have other things to do in the meantime. I have stories to edit and stories to write. I even have stories to draw – the flying horse looks promising – but that isn’t quite as much of a priority. Just something I feel will add to the prose. As such, it can be done afterwards. Also, it turns out a story I had backburnered for at least a year probably won’t stay locked away for that long after all. It’s kind of complicated but suffice to say I thought I had to forget about it for a year. Turns out I don’t.

In fact, that’s the one that needs stuff drawing. It has stakes. And a real arsehole of a villain. And gods!!!! I love gods. They’re great. And a flying horse, but I already mentioned him.

But first, or possibly simultaneously, there must be editing.

Connected to this, but not necessarily a very close connection, is the fact that I have been considering money things. Got stressed about it yesterday and the day before, but now I’ve done some maths and discovered it is FAR cheaper to get the train to work than it is to drive. As in, the train costs a quarter of what the car costs in fuel alone. So that should help with fuel costs, and have a pleasant knock-on effect on overall costs. And since I’ve started to try and get more fibre and protein into my diet (ie, fruit, veg and meat) this has made me spend more on food, but that should be more than cancelled out by what I’ll save on transport. We’ll see what happens. It kind of depends how quickly I can reeducate my system to crave fruit instead of chocolate. Fingers crossed.

Back to writing/editing stuff. Do you remember the last time you were really excited by a project? I mean, bouncing up and down excited. I can. It was last night. And it wasn’t even the flying horse that did it (although he promises to be a dude). It was discovering who the villain was and why he was being villainous. Because the Big Bad makes the story. And to be honest, I have no idea how my hero(ine)s are going to defeat this guy. Cos he’s rather smart, and totally driven, and not above using a multitude of stooges to do his dirty work.

But I’ll figure it out eventually. For now I get to look at pictures of lightning. Well, not right now. Right now I’m at work and scrambling to finish this before my lunch break burns out, but afterwards, tonight, AFTER EDITING, MHAIRI, DON’T FORGET THE EDITING *ahem* (please ignore my Dark Passenger), TONIGHT I get to look at lightning. And edit stuff. And write other stuff. And pay a couple of bills.

It’s all really rather exciting.

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