Remember last time when I said my workload was shrinking? Well, I accidentally grew it again. NaNoWriMo came and went, and that project is currently on the backburner while I juggle FOUR stories for which I currently have ideas, not to mention the five or six other projects I have started at some point. My New Years resolution was to publish at least one story per quarter, and I'm trying to stick to that. I'm hoping to have one or two finished by the end of February and ready for a spring release.

In the meantime, I do have a new short story out, The Silk Dungeon. I wrote that over a couple weeks as sort of a joke/imagination dump. It started as a joke while playing World of Warcraft when a friend and I were running dungeons for loot. My character needed silk for her profession, so I asked if he knew any "two-man silk dungeons," then remarked that that sounded like the setting for a book I would write. The idea nagged at me for the next ten minutes, and a month later I submitted the manuscript. Goes to show that inspiration can come from anywhere.

Unfortunately, that adds to my work load. I would rather have too many ideas than too few, but being tugged in all directions while trying to keep your plots and characters straight can be exhausting. I really like some of my current characters, so I don't mind spending this much time with them, but I also want to see them get to their happy ending as soon as possible, which takes a while when I haven't even written the scene where they meet their special guys. I suppose that means I should get off this blog and get back to work.

So it goes.