Long time without an update! I know, I know.

I’ve been managing my health and indulging in distractions. I focus specifically on hobby work and painting as a form of meditation and anger management. It works, very well. It helps relieve stress from pressing medical conditions. I’m just biding my time to a number of procedures and unashamedly entertaining myself as best I can.

THAT SAID, I’m still scribbling down notes. I have several pieces that are in the forefront of my mind. Working Titles:

Cave at Hobbs Creek, Eating the Alien and Funny Pages

Some of them are well along, and others are still in the wildly crazy note and image phase. None of them are ‘first-draft’ ready. They’re still like massive vision boards, stretching across OneNote endlessly, like some maniacal puzzle conceived in a language that only I can understand. There ARE a few shorts that are done the first draft and ready for editing, but they’re not long enough to justify putting together as one book. I need a few more to fill it out and justify it for my readers to invest their time and money. I don’t mind shorts…I love them! But I want to jam a lot of them together so my readers don’t get stuck paying Amazon’s bare minimum for just a dozen or so pages of stuff, three times over. I’d rather jam 5 or 6 shorts together and charge the bare minimum ONCE. Just feels fair for shorter forays into my weird shared universe.

I’m still optimistic. And I’m still scribbling notes. At some point the dam will break and a lot of stuff will come flooding out. I just can’t focus on the pieces for prolonged periods of time until I feel completely better. Could I possibly have one intense weekend where I get overwhelmed and just blast out something because it completely consumes me?

Absolutely. (And I really hope it happens.)

Cheers all. I hope you’re all well.

PS – Thanks to everyone who’s picked up ‘The Carnal Fee’ in the last 3 months. I see a lot of people reading it and I really hope you all liked it! It’s giving me energy to NOT just delete all my rough drafts and never write again. I love you all. 🙂