My science fiction story is more than halfway edited so far. I found a scene which needs some of the events in it changed. To change what is already there to be something different yet similar, while fitting smoothly to what it flowed with before, is a new experience for me. It feels like it’s taking a lot of time. Luckily, I already learned that visible progress and actual progress are not the same thing after the first draft.

That progress has slowed again, as I swing back to making sleep a higher priority in the endless quest to find an optimal balance of my time. After a while, I will stay up late to write like I used to, no doubt. With each cycle, the balance is closer.

Soon I shall need to choose which story to write in November, for the main NaNoWriMo event. (National Novel Writing Month. Sometimes I forget to define terms I have used in previous posts, but each is supposed to stand alone.) Last year, some fellow writers showed an interest in an idea about dragon spies. I did not do that one, because the idea did not have a complete plot. Maybe it will now? What fun it is to dig out a bunch of incomplete stories, and sort through and shuffle and expand them, and make a literal creative mess with the note cards!

In other news, I found an open source recreation of an old favorite computer game of mine. I look forward to testing it soon. I also found instructions on how to start a fire using sticks. Several large sticks and small branches got blown down in recent storms. Now they need burned! I am determined to learn how to start a camp fire using only the tools I find outside – as soon as it is damp and still enough to burn safely, and preferably cooler than scorchingly hot.