Year's End

The leaves are gone, and crisp frost clings to the grass nearly every morning. The winter solstice is less than one week from now. I have always loved this time of year.

I will soon be wrapping up the latest volume of my journal* and having it shipped to me. I believe 2011 makes the fourth book on the shelf. This year was so filled with content, however, that I needed to have two books for this volume—Vol III, Book 1 and Vol III, Book 2.

Speaking of books, I have started writing the first draft of the third book in the trilogy. As of this blog post, I have written the prologue and first chapter. I had not intended to start writing the third book until after finishing the final draft of the first book, which I will be working on this winter, but I cannot seem to stop myself when inspiration hits.

The semester is over at this point, so I have a little over one month off from school before the spring semester starts. As I said, I plan to work on the final draft of the first book while I have this time to myself. I should have the third copy of editor's notes back relatively soon, and then it will be time for me to get to work. Some people dread editing their work, and others love it… I am rather ambivalent toward the act. While I enjoy expanding on what I have already written, it is an arduous process, rife with stress and littered with anxieties.

I should wrap up this post, I suppose. Chris and I are going to Hunt Valley today for a bit of shopping. We have not gone in quite some time, on account of his injuries, so it will be nice to be out and about.

*For those unaware, I am such a typography nutcase, I write my journal in Adobe's InDesign—following the Van de Graaf canon of page design, of course—complete with section titles, headers and footers, and filled with footnotes. I then have it printed and bound in hardcover each year.

Update on Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 11:15AM by Zach Risso

Side note: I have finally gotten around to adding the tutorials from my old website to this one. It only took two and a half years.