{"id":33776,"date":"2017-11-06T15:19:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T23:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=33776"},"modified":"2017-11-06T15:22:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T23:22:06","slug":"multitasking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/06\/multitasking\/","title":{"rendered":"Multitasking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve noticed more than my usual quota of typos lately, please forgive me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m multitasking. I wasn&#8217;t made to multitask.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a smidge of what&#8217;s going on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><strong>RebelFire: Out of the Gray Zone will be going into its Kindle edition<\/strong><\/strong> any time now. Not that I&#8217;ve done much to get it there; the bulk of the work has been my new partner\/publisher&#8217;s. But I&#8217;ve done my bit with (interruptive and distracting) this-n-that&#8217;s.\n<li><strong><strong>I&#8217;m about 1\/4 done editing <em>The Freedom Outlaws Handbook<\/em><\/strong><\/strong> for a third edition. The other day I called it a second edition, but that&#8217;s because in the 12 years since the last round of revisions, I forgot how much I&#8217;d changed back then. So. THIRD edition. In progress.\n<li><strong><strong>That same other day I hinted<\/strong><\/strong> at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/25\/writers-to-do-list\/\" target=\"_blank\">collaborative project<\/a> it was too early to say much about. I&#8217;ll say a little something about it below. But that, too, is moving. And fasssssssst.\n<li><strong><strong>Then this morning, The Wandering Monk,<\/strong><\/strong> who has been mysteriously mum lately (hint: I think it involves a new girlfriend, in which case I may have to give him a new alias) called and said tomorrow&#8217;s a good day for a winter weather work party. It&#8217;ll just be a one-day thing. But the progress we make tomorrow will allow me to move on to the mostly solo effort of drywalling the bedroom and putting up its tongue-and-groove pine ceiling. That&#8217;ll be my November. In December the Monk comes back for more.\n<li><strong><strong>I also drafted another brief scene<\/strong><\/strong> for the new RebelFire story. Now it&#8217;s merely a matter of polishing it and putting it on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/freedomistaclaire\" target=\"_blank\">Patreon<\/a> for subscribers to preview. I confess I&#8217;m not sure when that will be.\n<\/ul>\n<p>In short, whew. So if you continue to spot typos, just know I&#8217;m typing as fast as I can. Sometimes typing too fast for my clumsy fingers to keep up with my brain.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as to that collaborative project &#8230; I&#8217;m still not ready to talk about the thing itself. Soon. But I will say this: my writing partner is terrifying. Absolutely, utterly, monster-movie terrifying.<\/p>\n<p>In a good way, you know.<\/p>\n<p>But terrifying. Under circumstances that would have me swooning melodramatically onto a fainting couch (if I had a fainting couch) &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/victorian_fainting_couch_by_sircle-d2xlfbr.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/victorian_fainting_couch_by_sircle-d2xlfbr-450x283.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"283\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/victorian_fainting_couch_by_sircle-d2xlfbr-450x283.png 450w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/victorian_fainting_couch_by_sircle-d2xlfbr-768x483.png 768w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/victorian_fainting_couch_by_sircle-d2xlfbr-800x503.png 800w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/victorian_fainting_couch_by_sircle-d2xlfbr.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/img12.deviantart.net\/21dc\/i\/2010\/241\/9\/1\/victorian_fainting_couch_by_sircle-d2xlfbr.png\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; this person can whup out a solid chapter of writing &#8212; and I mean solid, good work &#8212; in a weekend while also &#8230; well, let&#8217;s just say this person was born to multitask. And did I mention &#8212; is <em>so freakin&#8217; scary it&#8217;s inhuman<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>No way can I keep up with my end of the work at that pace. Can&#8217;t even try. Still, that level of progress coming at me puts juuuuust enough performance pressure on me that I attempt not to lag more than a week or so behind. Typos there, too. But typos can be undone. So there we are.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t want to do this for months on end. But as a creative binge with an end (or at least a break) somewhere in sight, it&#8217;s a rush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve noticed more than my usual quota of typos lately, please forgive me. I&#8217;m multitasking. I wasn&#8217;t made to multitask. Here&#8217;s a smidge of what&#8217;s going on: RebelFire: Out of the Gray Zone will be going into its Kindle edition any time now. Not that I&#8217;ve done much to get it there; the bulk of the work has been my new partner\/publisher&#8217;s. But I&#8217;ve done my bit with (interruptive and distracting) this-n-that&#8217;s. I&#8217;m about 1\/4 done editing The Freedom Outlaws Handbook for a third edition. The other day I called it a second edition, but that&#8217;s because in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/06\/multitasking\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Multitasking<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-mind-and-spirit","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33776"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33784,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33776\/revisions\/33784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}