end-of-the-week post

So another week passes into the new year.

Through none of my own effort (well, I did work a lot, but let's say "through none of my own motivation") I got a lot of things out of my house this week -- My mom came and picked up most of the last of the things that have been here since her move, which is definitely a load off. Apparently I now have to get my garden going in the back, since the weather thinks it's Spring, with April/May temperatures and sun in January. If a cold snap doesn't come soon and I move quick I might get two rounds of tomatoes etc. That would be cool, but I'll settle for an improvement over last year. I'm planning to put a lot more beds in this time, so that a high failure rate will still yield a lot of food. The decision to make now is whether to just get boards and screws (and hardware cloth. Curse you gophers!) and leave these if I end up moving a big distance, or buy joints the boards can slot into and out of and take the beds with me. We'll have to see; it'll probably depend on the pieces' prices.

I'm at a point now at the end of this week where I'm happy to call an end to my research and start writing. That doesn't mean that I won't seek out more information, but I have more than enough to write until I hit a point where I wonder about something and can look it up. The question I had for a while was whether to start all over from the beginning, or edit and salvage what I've already written. On the one hand some of it was quite good and would be a shame to waste, while on the other hand some of it was not to good as I felt myself getting boxed in and struggled to get out, and reading it may warp my intuitions of this new version of the story back into its old groove. I think I'll read it over and keep bits, but cut the last large part and rewrite from there.

Also on the writing front, escape pod turned my story down. I'm not super surprised, as I said I wasn't sure it would work as an audio story without music, and it isn't as much in the style of story they have (which they describe on their website as "fun"). Still, it cost me nothing and the more I get things out the better.

Other than that I'm working on getting my applications in quite a lot, though I realized I did a few things wrong and now have to backtrack and work forward again, now with closer deadlines.

Ah, well.