progress on FROSTBORN: THE SHADOW PRISON
I didn’t get much writing done last week, because most of my time went to Business.
Alas, because of the kind of movies I watched when I was a kid, I assumed that Doing Business would involve sitting around in a pinstripe suit, smoking a cigar in a swanky bar near the Warehouse District and/or the Spaceport, and exchanging veiled threats with private detectives (and possibly with the private detectives’ android sidekicks), all while attractive waitresses carried out tumblers of expensive scotch. And then Batman would show up to engage in fisticuffs.
However, in the many years since I’ve learned that Doing Business usually involves things like this:
-Printing out large numbers of PDF forms.
-Filling out PDF forms.
-Standing in line at the post office to mail the printed PDF forms.
-Navigating phone menus.
-Discussing various types of retirement accounts with polite men in button-down shirts.
-Trying to fix one’s website.
-Attempting to locate discount refrigerator parts.
On the plus side, I didn’t have to fight Batman, so it worked out.
But! Wrapped up all that last week. I’m now on Chapter 15 of 34 of FROSTBORN: THE SHADOW PRISON.
I had hoped to finish it by Easter, but that might be unrealistic. FROSTBORN: THE SHADOW PRISON will definitely be one of the five longest books I’ve written, and there’s an outside chance it might end up being the longest book I’ve ever written. So instead I will try to be 2/3 of the way through – at Chapter 23 of 34 – by Easter. Let’s see if I can pull that off!
-JM