Delays and Patience

[cathschaffstump]

You may have noticed from the Publications page that Hulk Hercules: Professional Wrestler has been pushed back to January, 2010. That's okay. I will bide my time.

There are some very good reasons. Cat's Curious editor Sonya Sipes thinks we can do a better publicity campaign for it if we have more time to play with. I can handle positive publicity.

I have pretty much determined to be easy-going in my writing life. (Alternately, I almost busted a sprocket in my day job life last week, so perhaps I should apply this lesson more broadly.) If I had any good advice to give a new writer going in, it would now be this: expect wait times. Take the longest wait time you can imagine, and cube it. That's your minimal wait time for any project.

This isn't a complaining piece. It's a cultural piece. It just took me a while to understand this piece of the culture. Mind you, I do find it frustrating sometimes, but you'll be better prepared than me, because you've read this and other commentaries like it.

Let's take a look at some time frames.

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