I had a pretty nice weekend than has gone a long way toward getting my attitude back close to being fit for human consumption.
On Saturday, despite the now-standard insomnia and sleeping in late, we got out of town up into the mountains to a party at a friend's house. They've got a lovely place right out in the middle of nature, with a spectacular view of a particularly impressive bit of mountain (complete with a waterfall). I barely even touched a computer Saturday.
On Sunday, we slept in -- we'd meant to get up and go to church, but we slept right through the alarm. Oops! However, I was able to get up and going and get a few writing odds and ends taken care of. The draft of Chapter 6 of my DCAR ebook -- long overdue -- is now in the hands of my editor. Yay! Plus, I watched Serenity, which completes my viewing of the Firefly material, and started getting some of my thoughts about that put down into a review. I have resigned myself to the fact that when I do get around to posting my review of the Firefly oeuvre, I'll probably get more comments (and flames) on that one post than I will have on my combined two previous years' worth of blogging.
Steph and I had a couple of productive chats last week on the novels I'm writing. I've figured out the resolution to a pretty complicated issue in The Next Day -- basically, how it all works out -- so I'm ready to get back to work on that. We also got some of the important character timeline work down for my Charism series, which moves me closer to being able to dig in on that.
As a bonus, the party Saturday seems to have knocked loose a song that's running around in my head. This is good on two counts -- first, it's something I obviously need to write for me. Second, it's going to be useful material for the first Charism novel, so that's a bonus.
Thansk to all for supportive comments, prayers, etc.