Last Friday, I found out that I had this week free from my regular freelancing assignments. That is a blessing and a curse. A curse because I won’t have the “steady” money that freelancing brings me and it is a blessing because it gives me more time to work on projects that have been gathering a bit of dust lately. So, what am I going to be working on this week? Seeing as how my brain often dashes from one project to another, I can’t make any promises, even to myself. However, my latest self-imposed schedule looks something like this:

Finish the proposal for Aberrant Nation, a comic book series. I still need to rework the summary for the first several issues, edit the character bios, and rewrite the first issue. With some focus, I should be able to finish by Thursday.

Rework a script called Deadwater and turn it into a novel – I just think it would work much better as a novel. Although, when I was looking at the script outline last night I saw it needed a lot of work. Still, I think I should be able to get 10 – 15 thousand words finished by the end of the weekend. As long as I have enough caffeine running through me.

“Nine Tenths” is the second story set in Underbelly, a subterranean metropolis populated with fallen gods, sorcerers, fairies, and everything else that people think are just myths. You will be able to read the first story (“Blood, Magic, and a Concubine”) in Marginal Boundaries, which comes out on March 31. I hope to get a working outline for “Nine Tenths” finished in the next few days.

That should be enough to keep me out of trouble for the week. At the end of the week, I’ll let everyone know how I fared.