The work schedule

After reshuffling the projects on my plate, here's where I am:

• I'm writing the draft of Sally in the Blue Tent, a novel.
  
• I'm researching two future projects:
  
  • The libretto based on an American classic. Studying the source material.
    
  • A dark comedy of the old west. Reading two journals of the place and era, one by a man, one by a woman.
    
• Brooding about Nails in My Coffin, a novel of interrelated stories. I know it's set in a retirement center. I know one of the residents dies in each chapter. I may start some back-burner writing on this soon.
  

This should keep me out of trouble.