I know Saturday is a bad day for these goal posts since everyone is out doing stuff.  Yet, I’m seeing Avengers: Age of Ultron tomorrow and I’ll be gone for the morning/early afternoon.  I plan on making a little post about that movie.  Honestly, I’m just hoping for a low key day at the movies tomorrow.

Quiet frankly, I need a day like that because this week was rough on the grey matter . . . or is it gray matter?  I finished editing Merchant of Nevra Coil, Ichabod Brooks & the City of Beasts, and added a handful of minor edits to Prodigy of Rainbow Tower.  I cooked, vacuumed, did laundry, and all the usual weekday antics.  Promotions were done for my books, which are doing their usual slump and are off the lists as the writing of this post.  That makes me fear for the future installments that don’t have the ‘romance’ tag to help them.  Honestly, I’m out of ideas for marketing right now.  I have the May stuff starting up soon, so we’ll see what happens there.  At least Ichabod debuts on June 1st and I’m hoping to garner some opening reviews from the beta readers.  Seriously, I’m not sure what I’m doing any more and I’m just wiped out.

The reason I’m wiped out isn’t even the marathon of editing I did from Monday to Tuesday and possibly Wednesday, which is a blur.  I started writing that paranormal thriller that I mentioned last weekend.  It’s so far out of my comfort zone that I’m basically crawling through it.  I’d say I’ve been working on it for 3 days and only have 20 pages/2.5 chapters done.  My brain is melting here because I’m pushing for an atmosphere that I’m not used to, keeping my fantasy author habits in check, and not working with the detailed outlines that I usually do.  I did a basic character list and chapter list then dove into it.  Then I realized that the characters had different issues than I expected and I’m not even sure what’s going on with the ‘bad guy’.  Mostly because I realized there’s a mystery that I don’t have an answer to.  Not sure I ever will and I’ll let people ponder it.  Anyway, this project is going slower than expected and draining my energy rather quickly.  Every word feels like it has to be chosen meticulously and I can’t bring myself to just go.

On the non-writing front, we have baby bunnies in the backyard.  That’s really it for that part of life.  New washer/dryer too.  And people wonder why I don’t talk about my non-writer life here.  Nothing really happens.  Let’s get on with the goal list:

1. Continue writing the paranormal thriller.  Target is to finish it in 2 weeks.  Might start moving quicker as I get a feel for things.
2. See Avengers 2 tomorrow.  Remember not to finish ‘medium’ drink before the 20 trailers are done.
3. Take son to dentist and keep him occupied since he’ll be home from school that day.
4. Outline if time or brain is too mushy for other stuff.
5. Uncover the secret of life.  Forget information is in pocket when doing laundry.
6. Continue to let my son believe Batman is a bad guy.
7. Cook the bike.
8. Stop imagining that I’ll ever get a chance to sleep in.
9. Make a note that the paranormal thriller may be a shorter work than Legends of Windemere, but it still deserves a pizza reward.
10. Occasionally make posts for June if I can think of any topics.

On that last note, I’m always looking for post questions and topics.  It can be on almost anything.