This is my first time writing since the last post. For some reason, work has been more exhausting than usual. Maybe the work schedule is catching up with me after almost seven weeks of waking up in the middle of the night. But that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Especially considering the fact that I’m not much for late nights anymore. Every once in a while is fine, but I guess I have different goals and perspectives than I did just a few years ago. And with this new schedule, I’m more capable of starting my day at a time that I feel comfortable beginning my other projects.

But I think the past week has just been a nonstop of backed up things around the residence that just sort of needed to be addressed all at once. Basically, the support for one thing broke and then the small things that the support were holding up kept spilling through. But, it seems that’s a repeating pattern to being older. 

Luckily with this absence of writing, I’ve been thinking a bit more about my writing. Absence makes the heart grow fonder and all that. But that empty feeling hit me again. And this time I was better equipped to know that it’s writing that I missed. 

I’m not sure if it’s been said explicitly, but I’ve begun compiling different worlds for my stories. I don’t exactly have names for them quite yet, because it feels wrong to officially name them when there’s so little going on in them. But I know that there’s three: one rooted in semi-sci-fi, one in fantasy, one that’s connected to the fantasy world (does this mean it’s just the same world?), and one in semi-horror fantasy, magical realism. I’ve been primarily thinking about the last of these, the magical realism one. That’s the one where Portals to Percy is set. One of my manuscripts is set there, too. And I’ve just been having fun thinking about the silly things that can happen there: demons hanging out in a diner, animals commanding armies, plants growing in the sky. Fun things, you know. 

For now, that’s what I’ll be focusing on, I think. 

Anyway, not much to update on. I’m still here. Trying to maintain writing to some degree. 

Hope all has been well with all of you, or at the very least that you’re able to identify and come up with solutions to obstacles you’re facing.