[failquicker]

I'm writing "Everwake"

It's about a future where our preoccupation with productivity led us to genetically engineer away our need/ability to sleep. In this future sleep becomes the drug of choice and the domain of the counter culture.

I have a framework I wrote last month and a good friend of mine is a sci-fi editor. She agreed to give me notes, mainly so I would leave her alone.

Not really going to set a word a day goal. With me, I find that sometimes only a few hundred words eek out. While other days 3000-4000 come out freely.

[cstross]

Hmm. Are you familiar with "Beggars in Spain" by Nancy Kress? (Hint: past decade Hugo-award winner.)

NB: if not, do not go and read it just now. Finish your own work first, then read it.