Hiatus, Back Soonish

Journal 117: 8 April-5 May 2024

I don’t have much to say, but I wanted to post something here just to let people know what’s going on and that there will be regular posts again…. Someday.

After dealing with all of emotions after the passing of James Moore, I then lost another writer friend, albeit one I only knew online, but still a good guy. With two deaths within a matter of weeks, guilt at my lack of work ethic, self-doubt, and a general sinking into lazy moodiness; I’ve sort of disconnected from everything that isn’t my day job.

Add on top some medical problems with family members, FCBD at my store this weekend, and I just burned out.

From Last Blog to this One

Week by week I had my birthday, and more guilt that I skipped my blog.

The passing of Ray Garton taking me by surprise.

My co-worker going on vacation and I had to fill their hours.

I felt bad that I hadn’t been reading for months so I spent two weeks reading comics, magazines, and some non-fiction. It was like a massive binge. So much so, that I watched almost no movies or k-dramas in the month of April.

I’m a guy who usually averages 20-30 movies/show seasons a month. I did 11 in April due to all the reading.

Work, reading, and pretty much nothing else for the entirety of the last three weeks.

In the last couple days, I did make an effort to turn back on my “writing muscles.”

Writing Muscles

I pulled out my notebooks a few days ago and reread my notes for the next novel. It helped get me interested in the story again, and rethinking some of the plotting.

It also got me back into thinking about gaming and running games. I started to compile all of my house rules and new ideas into a single notebook. And I laid the ground work for physically being able to run a game. A day, time, and location are still in the air but firming up a little.

I don’t know… I always seem to think things are going ok, or that I’m on the right track and then in my next blog, everything falls thru or never gets mentioned again. Suffice I’m always working at things that often fall through. As such, I tend to be cryptic about the details of what I’m up to. That way when it fails, I don’t have to air it.

Going forward

I’m going to try and keep to every two-week blog schedule, at least until I get my shit together and start writing the new novel. Once I write the new novel I will go to weekly blogs and keep putting up my word counts again.

Posting my word goals always tends to keep me motivated.

I don’t know what else to talk about. I’m sure none of you want me to talk about he handful of k-dramas I watched and how annoyed I was by some of the secondary characters in them. Nor do you want to hear about storylines in the last couple weeks of comics.

This is just  a short place holder to note that I’m flagging a little in my drive and I’m making an effort to keep it going.

More will come, I will get my shit together, and the novels will flow again.