Things have changed from back burner to serious on Cracks in the Window and I now have a deadline on finishing it, at which point I will get a critique from an agent.

As exciting as this is, this is not the same thing as actually submitting it for publishing, but it does mean I get an agent (who is contracted by the authors I am most closely associated with) to critique at least a little bit of my work and provide positive feedback on making my writing publishable.

Leading into this I'm actually having someone else critique it in advance of the critique which seems to be, in programmer speak, many layers of abstraction, since none of these have the end result in having a publisher look at it. ( read more )

Work continues on the card game I mentioned in my last post. We've had several playtest games now, and I've made a whole host of changes. A few wrinkles stubbornly don't iron out, but I imagine they'll be ok once I work out the nature of the actual problem.

Between that and general life, I've not had a great deal of free time for other pursuits. I'm not terribly good at time management, unfortunately. It's something I'd like to get better at, but I have not yet been successful. It will eventually be my undoing, I am certain.