performance anxiety

The excitement of getting my cover flat yesterday (the physical object came, as well as the .jpg) seems to have shaken something loose, and I now feel like I know what the scene in Kekropia, on which I have been stuck lo these many months, ought to be doing.

Now I just have to convince myself that I have the chops to write it.

aiieee.

Thus, I retreat to my time-honored strategy of making a list.

for today
(1.) 1,000 words
(2.) answer email, you slacker
(3.) The Desk

I should do laundry, too, but let's not get crazy.

It's okay. I can do this. I just need to remember to breathe.

I am planning a radical step (NftL archived here)

Namely, admitting that I do not have the energy to keep two blogs at once.

I've liked having a quasi-Sekrit Identity as Truepenny (and wouldn't change my LJ user name for anything), but the fact of the matter is, a writer's blog is partly a marketing tool, and it can't very well work as one if I don't tell people that's what it is. And matociquala's example has shown me that I don't need a Sekrit Identity to be myself.

So Notes from the Labyrinth is, I think, going to merge into this journal (which is currently called Mole-dug Mazes, but will probably take NftL as a name, because, heck, it's nifty).

And as a preliminary step in that direction, I'm using this post to save all the interesting entries from Nftl. So this is long, and some of you have probably read all of these before, and it's mostly for me so I know where to find 'em.

( 02/01/2004: How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? )

( 02/06/2004 )

( 02/17/04: The Obscure and Secretive Life of Plants )

( 08/15/04 )

( 08/26/04: Grand Unified Theory of Everything )

( 10/05/2004 )

It's a Shakespeare meme

( Quoth the sheep, Baaaaaaa. )