There is some seriously nasty cold going around here that everyone seems to be getting, including me. I’ve been sick as hell for a week and a half now. Whatever this is, it’s really bad, and it seems to have three stages. The first day and a half or so it’s pretty mild. You may even think you’re getting over it. Then near the end of the second day, it hits you like a damn freight train and turns into a severe head cold. The following day you lose your voice. For three days you’ll barely be able to talk, and then for ages after your voice will slowly start to recover, but only very slowly. Then about a week into it, it changes into something else entirely. You start feeling completely dried out, and you get a dry cough that often leads to serious coughing fits that’ll make you wish you were dead. There’s something going on in the throat too that makes it feel like you tried to swallow a pill that got stuck in there and won’t shift, even though there’s nothing there.
Oh, and on top of all that, I got a flare up of gout in my left foot as well. 😛
Despite it all, I somehow managed to finish chapter 2 in my next book today. Progress on it has been extremely slow for a variety of reasons, including work, illness, and general life issues that I’ve had to deal with. Don’t worry though, I’ll never give up on it. It may be slow going, but I’m going to try to be more on top of working on it now.
Anyway, I haven’t posted an update in a while. That’s what’s been going on here. Oh, and on the 23 / 24th of this month, the site will be down for a while. I’m changing internet providers and getting new static IPs, so things will be down until the new ones propagate.
It’s been a while…
Yeah, I know. It’s been ages since I posted an update. The fact is, I’ve been busy with work and had to set my writing aside for a while. I got three chapters into Retribution and stalled out because of work. I’ve come to a decision though. I am still going to write Retribution at some point, but I think the first thing I’m going to do is to go back and re-edit about the first 3/4 of the books in the series, and I’m going to get them all ready for print, releasing print versions one by one as I do them. I was looking back at the first book today and while the story is still what I wanted it to be, the writing isn’t up to my current level of writing experience and expertise.
The first book in the series was the first one that I’d ever written, and while it’s had re-edits and what not, style-wise it’s different from the later books, because my writing style developed drastically throughout the course of the series, and I want the whole series to measure up to the later books. So, that’s going to be my next project. Once I get through with all that, then I’ll go back to Retribution and work on it. I have a good start on it, but the series is honestly more important to me, and always will be.
So that’s what’s happening. I’ve been trying to find a way to balance work and my own writing, but the stuff I’ve been doing for work hasn’t left me with the mental energy to work on my own stuff, so I need to get past what I’m currently working on before I’ll be able to focus on writing again. However, I will be able to dedicate at least a couple of hours per day toward the editing work on the series, so I’m fulling planning on getting started with that soon. I want print versions of them all to be available, so that’s a priority for me.
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