Catching Up With Phil (Again)

CATCHING UP WITH PHIL (AGAIN) It’s late already for our common Tuesday get-together, and all sorts of ideas for posts have been stacking up, however it’s been a while since I’ve accomplished a type of spherical-up of all of the things which might be going on with lil ol me, so let’s see what’s happening in Phil’s World . . . I’m currently finishing up two ghostwriting tasks, one operating very late. Neither of those books will ever bear my name and you'll by no means have any idea I had something to do with them, however I’m quite pleased with being involved with each of them, so that (and the cash) should be ok for me. Why do we do that? Ghostwriting? For me it’s actually not concerning the money (though, potential publishers, you'll need some of that). If I approached any part of my life from that standpoint I wouldn’t be scripting this right now. Instead I’d be busy transferring other individuals’s cash round for anyone like Goldman Sachs. So yes, I get paid, and use that money for wild flights of fancy like shelter, electrical energy, and meals. But what those ghostwriting initiatives (and one other that I’ll be beginning in on before the top of the 12 months) present is a chance to do something fully different from what I usually do. I can’t inform you what these books are however one is fiction, the opposite non-fiction and neither of them have something in any respect to do with science fiction or fantasy, or writing, or anything you’ve previously seen my name hooked up to. Both are completely different from the opposite and I adore them both and sincerely am delighted to have a hand in them. These two books are two of the Three Really Pressing Overdue Projects I’m currently busting my butt to finish. The third of those three is a comprehensive edit of a fantasy novel, the writer of which can or could not ever acknowledge my part in and I will leave that to mentioned creator to resolve. It’s a terrific e-book and the author has a really tight, very r eadable fashion with a few issues I hope to help out with. There’s an anthology I’m engaged on simply as a duplicate editor that’s additionally great enjoyable and plenty more immediately in my established wheelhouse. That’ll get finished in the subsequent month. Hook up with me via Writer’s Digest I’ve additionally been doing these individual story coaching periods with authors via Writer’s Digest, with another one on deck for the coming week. I strategy these much less as an editor and extra as an educatorâ€"a role I’ve actually been drawn to prior to now few years. To that finish, I’m most of the means via my eight-week Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction class at Bellevue College, with another round of Worldbuilding developing in the subsequent term (beginning January). At the same time I have a 4-week online Worldbuilding class through Writer’s Digest University, which is open to all. I hope they invite me again for a third go-around of that within the subsequ ent few months. It’s one other distinctive new expertise, instructing online classes like that. And there’s a new online tutorial from me, this one called Writing Scary that anybody who wants to determine a way of suspense or terror in their writing may benefit from. This is one other Writer’s Digest manufacturingâ€"at all times delighted to work with them. Buy It Now! Writing Monsters is on the market and selling and when you haven’t bought that but, disgrace on you! Monsters are superior and ought to be in everything everybody writes at all times. There. I stated it. What else? Oh, I ought to be writing a Traveller novel, and should be modifying two finished Traveller novels and must get to those immediately after lastly clearing the Log Jam That Would Not Be Cleared (a lesser recognized Lovecraftian horror). I love Traveller and I don’t care who is aware of it. I must also be writing five extra jungle pulp tales for Tommy Hancock at Pro Se Productions so he can, y’kno w, publish them and stuff. And then there’s the fantasy novel work-in-progress that I’ve been utilizing for instance of my fantasy novel work-in-progress so long it’s turn into that instead of, y’know, a fantasy novel, full stop. Hm. What else? I’m judging a contest but I gained’t let you know which one. That’s really really fun. Don’t inform anybody I mentioned that. I’ve started studying A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge along with a gaggle on GoodReads and have already mined it for examples for what I hope could be a follow-up to Writing Monsters that concentrates on sentient species. I might be able to put that proposal collectively by the tip of the yr. I’ve made the unilateral determination to take some time off by the top of this year, so for the record, Athans & Associates Creative Consulting will be closed, for the first time ever, for Thanksgiving and the Friday after and all of December 24th by way of to the primary Monday in January. In all honesty there’s very little likelihood that more than a kind of days will really be utterly free of labor, however one can hope and plan. If I find yourself with a time off that will be fairly a change for the higher there, having not really taken a correct day without work, not to mention something resembling a trip, in about four years. They say that should you love what you do you’ll never work a day in your life besides it’s a bit extra like when you love what you do you’ll never take a day without work in your life and that’s kind of a double-edged sword. I went to the physician right now and he or she was steadfastly towards writing me a prescription for crystal meth or another drug that might prevent me sleeping in any respect for the next three weeks. That’s more or less what might want to happen to get me to that “day off” with any hope of taking day without work, and even then, with some projects (like that Traveller book or that fantasy novel) not really having b een started, properly, frankly, if I’m writing my very own work that counts as “day off.” Also, this physician also maintains that the constant sleeping I’ve been doing (upwards of eight hours at a go) is actually “healthy,” which is kind of fun expecting someone to be unconscious for a 3rd of a very restricted time in which to perform everything . . . we’ll see what I can do on my own to get again to a more productive 4 to 5 hours. Willing to strive exercise at this level, or possibly these horrible energy drinks. Anyone know if Five Hour Energy is available in tablet kind so I don’t need to choke down that syrupy pretend cherry crap? I guess that’s the way it worksâ€"it’s troublesome to fall asleep while vomiting. Have I gone off subject? Oh, yeah, and galley evaluation of the brand new R.A. Salvatore Forgotten Realms guide for Wizards of the Coast. And my doctor also gave me a referral for an additional doctor who will be capable of tell me whether or not or n ot I have Adult ADD, which can finally be an opportunity for me to get these medicine that will hold me awake and working. So, want me luck on that. So now you’re all caught up with Phil. Stay tuned. If these posts all of a sudden cease within the subsequent couple of months it received’t be as a result of I forgot it'll mean that I have literally exploded in a shower of sparks, leaving, like one former Spinal Tap drummer, somewhat inexperienced globule as the only proof that I once existed. I am! I was! â€"Philip Athans About Philip Athans Busy man. Glad you are forging a means via forests you like (largely)… Fill in your details beneath or click on an icon to log in: