Literally the day of HBD (Here Be Dragons) release, the writer part of miss started thinking, "Ok, what's next?" Not even in a rhetorical manner. Book four of The Tripper Series was written in my mind years ago and has yet to completely make it out the fingers and into a rough draft. Then my brain reminded me of Backyard Brilliance, a human nature story that utilizes the knowledge that humans will do strange things to each other for money or entertainment. That draft was started a couple years ago and lies at 4,000 words. Then there is a bizarre futuristic ranch story, a full 50,000 word rough draft I totally forget about. I was blessed to write that rough draft in a line cabin during (that cabin's) off-season. There is no off-season in ranch life, the work moves with the weather. However the rancher allowed me a month off to write in one of the cabins. A cool experience.

As I type this I am reminded of my personal task list as well. We've a homestead developing and it still has a back-list of chores longer than my indie author list. More roads to build, dead trees to remove, water bars to be built.... Then structure. Things to live in, play in, create in. Life is busy.

As I type this, I keep in mind my personal commitment to write my first philosophy book this November. As I often have in the past, I will surely rely on my version of the NaNoWriMo support system to write the rough draft. 50,000 words cranked out in 30 days, including a slight break for Thanksgiving. and the groggy return afterwards. I think once or twice I was mostly done by that point and crawled my way to the finish line the last week full of starches and sleep inducing turkey sandwiches.