Progression, Part III

I've had to change the title of the collection to something similar, but different enough to where I won't get sued -- apparently someone has a song with the same title. Everything else has remained the same.

Truth be told, this past week has been a train wreck of emotions and very little downtime. A mass outage at my workplace led me to dive in and burn through most of my Saturday -- morning, evening, and half of the overnight -- pitching in to help deal with the crisis in any way I could. Truth be told, I didn't get a weekend. Neither did many of my colleagues. 

Because of all the time spent, I get a "comp" day to make up for it. I chose this coming Thursday. My executive director also offered to buy me dinner or something to that effect, but I don't need that. I'm happy enough that I'll get an extra day off later in the week for my efforts. 

The outage is still going on, by the way. We've been assured it will be fixed by this evening. All we were able to do was stop the proverbial bleeding a bit. 

The writing process is a tough one. Some nights, words flow like melted butter. Others, no matter how much I want to write, I can't get the sentences to form properly and I become frustrated. 

Fatigue factors greatly into all of this. I've not had real decent sleep since Wednesday or so. Today is Sunday.

The collection has a core of four stories thus far. Two are partially written. A third is simply an idea at this juncture that I don't know how I will execute, but I know I want it to be the closing piece. The fourth is the title piece, which I've got a rough plan for, but will likely need major revision before it hits the page. I've decided to add an inspirations/dedications section at the end to help explain some things, but don't yet know how I'll execute that, either -- or if I'll leave it in or not. 

Everything is a work in progress until it's completed. Given enough time and energy to work on it, I expect the story referenced in the photo above to be done in another week, save for any final editing. And then it's moving on to start/finish the others. I'm hoping to have everything done and "locked" so to speak by the holidays. It's all about being mission-focused.

Daisy tells me she wants me to write the screenplay she read the synopsis of earlier this year, and I had to tell her that until this book is finished, that's a far back-burner project. I will get to it eventually, but right now it is not a priority. It is a perfect story for the screen, but stories for the screen need to be sold, and right now I'm not at the level where I can sell anything. I won't be for a few years yet, likely.