Howdy!
The Summer Slump has me firmly in its clutches, but at least this year I’m aware of it. I was doing alright while it was June and rainy, but now that it’s just sunny and hot for most of the day… it is now Tired Hours. Luckily I found a partial solution this year: closing the curtains earlier in the day. A simple thing, but apparently the light is what gets to me.
This doesn’t mean I’ve stopped working though, just that things have been moving a bit slower and that I’ve been more distracted. I did a smart this year – rather than trying to put more things on my plate, I’ve been focusing on what I’m already working on. A lesson one would think I’d have learned by now, but I don’t call myself a late-bloomer for no reason.
What Am I Working On?
Gil Girau Chronicles – We’re in the home stretch of the rewrite! Couple more chapters to go. Still no release date on it but I’m hoping to have it at least done, if not scrubbed down, sanded, and polished before mid-October, when I’ll be ironing out the plot of the second book to write for NaNo. I know the broad strokes but there’s a lot of discovery writing happening with these characters, too. Tending the garden as I go, with this series.
Salt 2: Electric Boogaloo – Still on standby, but I’m expecting to send in my clunky little half-draft for review soon. Happy Salt-iversary, y’all! Sukhetai and Tanan have been chilling out for about two years now due to Life Happening, but we’ll get there eventually.
Grifters – Skyrim is the gift that keeps on giving, and I keep on playing! Figured I’d slap this one in the update because the series recently passed episode 50 and we’re about three episodes away from the end of Act 1. Which means I have some screenplays to write. It’s going to be another long series, but hopefully not quite as long as Dawnbreakers. (Who knows, maybe ES6 will be out by the time I’m done.)
Other than some off-and-on worldbuilding and creature design to help flesh out the Gil Girau Chronicles as needed, that’s all from me! I’ll see you in… probably two-ish months, if the pattern holds.
Keep on keeping on, y’all!