Time!

I think the single biggest thing I'm going to need to change, now that I have returned to the outside workforce, is how I manage my time.

I'm going to give it a couple of weeks to get a better feel of the workload, but I'll be giving up the time I am at work from my writing and other responsibilities.

I suspect I'll be on LJ a little less (though there are other things I can cut back on as well), at least at first and until I can develop a new rhythm in my work patterns.

Writing wise, I'm in a good place to suffer a temporary slow down. I have a finished novel I'm about to kick to my readers. I have an older finished novel to look over when the time is right. I have a new novel that's been flowing smoothly and already nearly a quarter of the way done. I have 14 short stories and 2 poems out on submission. My only deadline is for the pirate story I need to read at WisCon. It is a good time to retrench.

I am also going to look at applying for individual arts grants. I'm seriously considering applying to one of the major workshops, such as Clarion, or Odyssey, or Viable Paradise, but they are a serious financial commitment.

That said, those of you who have gone to a major SFF writing workshop such as those mentioned above (or others I failed to mention because I don't know they exist), now would be a good time to tell me exactly why attending one of these workshops would be a good thing. Explain to me how one of these workshops will help me reach the next level as a writer.

Sell me, people; sell me on your favorite high-intensity professional workshop.

Time!

I think the single biggest thing I'm going to need to change, now that I have returned to the outside workforce, is how I manage my time.

I'm going to give it a couple of weeks to get a better feel of the workload, but I'll be giving up the time I am at work from my writing and other responsibilities.

I suspect I'll be on LJ a little less (though there are other things I can cut back on as well), at least at first and until I can develop a new rhythm in my work patterns.

Writing wise, I'm in a good place to suffer a temporary slow down. I have a finished novel I'm about to kick to my readers. I have an older finished novel to look over when the time is right. I have a new novel that's been flowing smoothly and already nearly a quarter of the way done. I have 14 short stories and 2 poems out on submission. My only deadline is for the pirate story I need to read at WisCon. It is a good time to retrench.

I am also going to look at applying for individual arts grants. I'm seriously considering applying to one of the major workshops, such as Clarion, or Odyssey, or Viable Paradise, but they are a serious financial commitment.

That said, those of you who have gone to a major SFF writing workshop such as those mentioned above (or others I failed to mention because I don't know they exist), now would be a good time to tell me exactly why attending one of these workshops would be a good thing. Explain to me how one of these workshops will help me reach the next level as a writer.

Sell me, people; sell me on your favorite high-intensity professional workshop.