At first I thought that having two story ideas at the same time was a great thing, because that's never happened to me before. Then I realized that trying to divide your writing time between two stories means that you'll only get half as much done on each one (bloody obvious, right?). So while I did get 50, 000 words written in May, in actual fact it was 25,000 words per story, which means I'll spend June adding 25,000 words to each one so that I'll have a decent-length (though still crappy) rough draft of each one. I have, however, decided to take my company up on it's yearly offer of summer hours, so that leaves Friday afternoons free for writing.
I have a number of business trips coming up this summer - the first one next weekend to San Francisco. It's also soccer World Cup time, and I hope I'll be able to keep up with it given all the distractions I'm facing. Ukraine and the Czech Republic have qualified for the first time, and there's the usual bunch - The Netherlands, Portugal, France, Italy, and England; also I think Serbia, Montenegro, Switzerland, Spain, and Croatia, and that's as many as I remember of the 32 teams that qualified.
I've also finally joined the i-pod nation. I can justify this because there's no point lugging around a CD player on business trips when I already have to lug around a laptop. And besides, I plan to stuff it with audiobooks thanks to audible.com
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