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Mark and Rand at GAfilk.

Heading back into normal work schedule now, and I will be making my fiction writing a priority this year. Some side-effects:

I won't be Blathering as often.

I plan to force myself to go into a kind of hermit mode. I will be ignoring the phone while I am writing. I will be gradually weaning myself off the habit of -always- being online. Nonfiction writing gives me the excuse to always leave my Web browser open ("It's for research, you know!") and checking mail every 10 minutes. I was becoming interrupt-driven, not a good environment for a writer of any kind.

I won't be posting or reading in Livejournal except for rare occasions. It doesn't mean I don't care about my friends; it means that I am going to opt for other types of contact that won't require typing or mouse-clicking (phonecalls, online voice chats, talking at conventions, visits).

If you have important life information to share, I will only find out if you tell me yourself (even in a group e-mail), or if I hear it from someone else.

I will still be checking e-mail, of course, but have given up on in-depth e-mail conversations until my arms are better. I realize that I will be drifting away from "the loop" and likely miss out on all kinds of fun, but my writing career has to take priority; if I end up flaming out in a deluge of rejection letters and have to look for other work, I need to know that at least I gave it everything I had.

Wish me luck. :-)

Christo and Adam at GAfilk.
Amanda and Zoe.


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