Long time no post.
I haven’t done a lot of writing lately. My initial plan of taking much of this year off my day job to focus on writing as a full-time occupation, which was part of the reason for me actually starting up this blog, ended up taking a back seat when I was offered a temporary, higher-level position doing something I had wanted to do for a while. I accepted, and for the last few months it was really uncertain, week-to-week, how long I’d be there doing it. Either way, I figured that I’d coast along, take advantage of the good work and higher pay for as long as I could to build up additional paid leave and pad my savings account out a bit more. Once the job had finished up, I’d just take my time off then.
I hadn’t intended on stopping writing in the interim. However, the uncertainty of the work and a couple of other factors (I starting seeing someone new, started up some fresh gaming commitments, and got a fresh bout of depression) made it very difficult to get into the headspace for it. I did a little bit of work on my next novella, but not very much, wrote a short piece of fiction that will never see the light of day, and that’s about all.
Today, paperwork was sorted out and I now have real confirmation that I’ll be sticking around in my current temporary position for another eight months, at a minimum. So long uncertainty.
This has solidified two things in my mind:
(1) I want to jump back into writing and finish off at least a first draft of my next novella while I’m still working full-time; and
(2) My original deadline to publish it this year, to maintain my pace of publishing one book per year, is almost certainly not going to happen.
With those in my, I’m going to review the work I’ve done so far and set down some goals for the rest of the year. My intent is to start updating this blog regularly with my progress–that means on a daily basis, even if it’s just checking in to say ‘Yep, I’m still here.”
We’ll see how I go.
