New Schedule

Confession: I'm not sure whether I'm a morning person or a night person. I think I'm motivated more by inertia--when I'm in bed, I want to stay there; when I'm awake, I want to stay there too.

Reading:

• Someplace to be Flying, by Charles de Lint
• Heir to the Empire, by Timothy Zahn

Writing:

• "Ferian Fetlock Cures a Horse"

Revising

• "Cora and the Sea"

It's been about six weeks now since I've started trying to get serious about writing. I've learned a lot in that time about what it takes to motivate me. I've also run into difficulty with another project, which is exercising and getting into better shape. To be perfectly frank, I haven't made any progress at all in the latter.

What I need is to do is develop a plan, and here it is:

• 5:00am - Wakeup
• 5:15am - Leave the house on my bike; pedal around for a while
• 5:45am - Return home; shower
• 6:00am - Breakfast
• 6:30am - Leave the house, go to Panera and write
  
• 8:00am - Leave Panera, go to work

That leaves my evenings free for whatever, and accomplishes both of my goals, exercise and writing. I'll want to devise an indoor exercise plan at some point, for rainy days (like tomorrow, honestly), but that can wait until I have the habit firmly established.

Meanwhile, I've taken a break from Someplace to be Flying to read the Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn. I read the first volume back in the early 90s, but never read the following volumes. I visited the Strand yesterday and found the whole series in hardcover for cheap, and treated myself.

It's good, better than I remember. I've come to think of most in-universe licensed fiction as little more than fan fiction, but Heir to the Empire has been a good read in its own right.