122 178 words. Woot.

I have just reached the designating stopping place (halfway) on the current project (a screenplay for an Asian-style tv drama with a vaguely wuxia feel to it) which I wasn’t supposed to have been working on. (But I have a better excuse than usual, because any excuse that involves the words “spinal surgery” is way better than average.)

That means that I can now convince myself to go back to all the other projects I was supposed to be working on. At least that is the plan. I have too many projects that I stopped somewhere in the middle, and I want to get some of them finished and off my mental to do list.

So there’s this website overhaul that is long overdue, and likewise four books in need of editing, and four covers that need to be painted…

… and then finally I can get back to finishing this novel (Song of Asolde Vol. 4: Fencing With Waves)) that I was in the middle of writing a year ago when my neck went kablooey.

It’s a bit difficult to figure out where I’m going slot the completion of this project into my schedule, though. Stopping here is like stopping at the end of a volume of a multivolume epic. I’ve been doing that for Song of Asolde for years… but it’s a bit wearing. Twenty years later I just want to get the story done, already.

I hope I don’t end up putting off Lily Besieged for as long…. but at the same time, why am I writing this project at all? (Answer: Because I wanted to see if typing on my tablet with a bluetooth keyboard was a viable way to write. Since I didn’t have any projects on my tablet, I started a ‘test’ project from scratch.)

Alas, I have no use whatsoever for a screenplay. I’d probably have to convert it into novels before I can do anything with it anyhow. (But as an exercise in working within an imposed structure it has been interesting.)