And another deadline bites the dust.
Jun. 1st, 2008 05:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janewilliams20The bits for Newt's new fanzine, "Hearts of Glorantha". I pulled the article and story I'd been planning out of storage: originally I'd planned them for the Furnace book, then the Continuum book, and now they're going to Newt. The article was about how to take little "mythlets" and location-specific ceremonies, like the ones in the Dragon Pass gazeteer (or indeed the British cheese-rolling ceremonies and similar) and turn them into scenarios tailored to your own PCs. Then the story was a demo of how to take a two-line mythlet and expand it to what turned out to be 4400 words of story. A Kallyr story, of course. I'm spending more time in the earlier part of her career at the moment, the arc I've tentatively called "1611: gateway to change". Here in fact it's 1610, and she's a visiting disreputable adventurer, not King of the Kheldon (yet). We have two major characters who also appear in "When the snow lay round about", which is set a year later: Ferenan, King of the Kheldon and Kallyr's uncle, and Tarki, leader of the Kheldon warband. Yes, there are noticable changes in their attitudes between the two stories...
A few lessons for me from all this.
1) If you have a deadline, stop this habit of procrastinating till the last few days and get it done early!
2) Yes, I was right, I do write better and more productively between about 2 and 6 am.
3) Yes, I can still do an all-nighter and get stuff done the next day, but this probably isn't a good habit to get into. At least, restricting it to Fridays and Saturdays would be a good move. It looks as if while I'm writing Kallyr stories I can channel her enough to borrow the Rigsdal Secret, "The worshipper can stay awake for any length of time, as long as he remains at his post....." but that does have a complete day's sleep afterwards built into the conditions, and trying to skip that as well gets silly.
A few lessons for me from all this.
1) If you have a deadline, stop this habit of procrastinating till the last few days and get it done early!
2) Yes, I was right, I do write better and more productively between about 2 and 6 am.
3) Yes, I can still do an all-nighter and get stuff done the next day, but this probably isn't a good habit to get into. At least, restricting it to Fridays and Saturdays would be a good move. It looks as if while I'm writing Kallyr stories I can channel her enough to borrow the Rigsdal Secret, "The worshipper can stay awake for any length of time, as long as he remains at his post....." but that does have a complete day's sleep afterwards built into the conditions, and trying to skip that as well gets silly.
