Feb 22 2014 murmur

[Jaymz]

Working Weekend February 22, 2014

Wayne, Alex and I are working through the weekend to push Rifts® Northern Gun 2 into final production layout. That means a weekend of power writing and editing. As I noted in the Thursday Weekly Update, I’ve up and down with the writing and editing of NG-2. Some days I’ve been hot and writing like a demon, other days I'm working slowly. The latter is frustrating and all get out.

I think part of the problem was being interrupted with a few business matters and a couple of unexpected problems. Nothing terrible, just things that took my time and interrupted my focus. For a couple days, I think my head was just clogged with numbers. Between game stats, planning budgets, paying bills and scheduling, my head was overflowing and clogged with numbers. I started to unclog on Thursday. Friday was a good day on several levels: I got some good news from a couple of friends, there was movement on a few things, I got a few bargains and I was back to writing well again.

Its Saturday, February 22, and I feel like I’m in the writing zone. I got in at 8:00 AM, put food in the feed for the birds, reviewed some text before actually diving into writing, and thought I’d write this Murmur before I got too focused on writing NG-2. Writing is all I plan to do all weekend and I'm looking forward to it.

Its 8:45 AM and a blurry-eyed Wayne Smith just arrived. Wayne is definitely not a morning person. I’m lucky to get him in by noon most weekends, but he’s here to prep, clean and size artwork for NG-2 (there’s a ton of it) and start selecting art for The Rifter® #66.

I know I’m pushing myself a bit hard. I feel like I’m fighting off a bug and my back and hip has been bothering me for the last two weeks. The latter means I need to see my chiropractor this morning before he leave for a well-deserved week-long vacation. The former means I need to call it a day by 7:30 PM no matter what. I’ll try to remember to post updates during the weekend and all next week.

Well, got get to it. Feeling positive and hungry to write. I love that feeling. I hope you all have a nice weekend. Its sunny but cold up here.

Kevin Siembieda
Publisher, Writer and Game Designer

[Josh Hilden]

I think part of the problem is poor time management... but hey what do I know

[Jaymz]

I, personally, am still seeing him posting things like this as if we are supposed to say "well golly Kevin you are so awesome and you are the man" when all he is doing is his job and his working weekends is in large part because of what constantly seems to be, as Josh put it, poor time management skills.

[Sci-Fi]

I wonder if someone took one for the team and stole his bird feeder, if we'd see books faster.

[joshuagoliath]

Well you know, if he had an actual business manager, a lotof tbose things that kept taking tine wouldnt be things he deals with

[damianmagecraft]

Feb 22, 2014 23:48:17 GMT joshuagoliath said:

Well you know, if he had an actual business manager, a lotof tbose things that kept taking tine wouldnt be things he deals with

Not as much as one would think;  I would wager...
Bills and such would be out of his purview sure.
But any big deals (RTT for example) would still require him to sign off on them and therefore he would want/need to have his fingers in all aspects of it.

[joshuagoliath]

A business manager would handle the small details of those things. And lay the basic groundwork, and be doing the followups, etc.

As well as the day to day stuff

[Jaymz]

Kevin has never been known to NOT keep his fingers off of things even when he says he will.

[joshuagoliath]

Kevin's number one problem... Kevin