Progress Notes, 2/23/07

I did not update mid-last week, or if I did, I am too tired to remember it currently; but the bottom line is, I successfully wrote and edited 5 days last week, and made my February submission goal with "Those Who Don't". Go me.

This week is another week of tightly proscribed days off; I am trying to use editing work, which is simpler if no less important, to bolster me on weeks like this, so I am making forward progress without having to blow off any social engagements.

Day 1: Apparently, finish a new short story (looking like longish flash fiction--"lightning fiction"?), tentatively entitled "Contempt".
Day 2: Sekrit Projekt.
Day 3: Sekrit Projekt.
Day 4: Edit "A Million Stories".
Day 5: Edit "A Million Stories".

Stories on deck for editing: "Recess", "The Boys of Summer", "The Color of Your Money".
Stories hypothetically on deck for editing but possibly destined for my files: "Admit One", "The Bottle", "A Day in the Life".

Eyes of Stone continues to loom, but the Sekrit Projekt is my priority for the moment. I think that taking a slightly more mellow approach to the novel--two to three nights a week on it, with editing and the Projekt on the nights I am burnt--might actually prove to be a more useful way of going about this, at least until I some day wander into the realm of deadlines.

I am still being terrible about my reading habits, however. I know it is not for a lack of love of the book I am reading, and I need to examine what the trouble is. More on this later.