Jell-O for brains

Jell-O for brains,
You ever get this feeling after you spend two sixteen hour days producing creative works all over the board.
I’m amazed I’ve got any ideas left. But I have more then I need to finish up my writing by Sunday night, provided I get to work and don’t get behind.
I’m scrambling to keep up with some of my other projects though. As it stands I’m not likely to complete my goal of selling something, I created by hand, online though. Unless somebody would like to pay a dollar for an exclusive chance at the first pair of Verdant treasures earrings (made from natural objects) by Sunday at midnight. Sight unseen.
Or buy a custom hand painted map commission, or a custom hand drawn maze. Ultra low prices ($5 for the maps and 10 cents for a custom maze of 5x7 inches).
Yeah, it’s not likely. I’m not really pitching something through my blog though, that’s not what it’s for. On other fronts I’m likely to miss the boat on my line of cards too. But hopefully I’ll get something done on them soon. Even if it’s a few rushed works. Some of my best work has been rushed.
I’ve enjoyed the writing project immensely and learned a great deal. But I won’t do it like this again. It leaves me creatively depleted and physically tired. I may do novels or a short story a week or even a month of word count total, but to struggle to come up with 31 different and original stories is hard.
But hard or not at the end of the month I will have something like 21 story universes worth revisiting for more stories. Many of them came out in ways that ask for sequels, some created entire settings that beg for exploration in completely different characters and even time frames.
And one of the best things is that even at the very end here there have been surprises. I had one story idea laid out from a few years back and preceded to work on it last night only to be shocked at the twist it pulled in the end. There was a death that hadn’t been planned and a dark turn of events that was a change from the original intent. It will make the later stories in this setting grittier and deeper as the dark aspect forms barriers between people who are supposed to be allies.
I love that sort of thing.
I may try to write for charity during November, I don’t know if I’ll use the same site for donations but I’ll keep you posted. I’ve got two novel ideas, and I’ll be working on them both, with the intent that only one has to reach the desired word total of 50000 by the end of the month. I’m better at the word totals and longer works of fiction.
But Between then and now I’ve got to work on some of those things on my master list (in my previous posts) and some monthly goals. I have at least 6 more novel ideas I can use toward future writing marathons, and I’m interested in doing something more visual too. Maybe painting.
Well, I’ve got some work ahead of me tonight on my list of things to do; I’ll be back tomorrow night with a post for how we are coming in to the finish. Sunday night I will post my success (or unlikely failure) at meeting my writing goals and how my other monthly goals went. A sort of closing ceremonies for the event.
But don’t let that stop you all from donating (it’s open to donations until October) or telling friends about how to support me and my charity.
So until tomorrow night, Take care of yourselves;
Roving Jack.