OMFG. I was not ready for September.
I was really not ready for September.
What did I get done in September? Uh, like, nothing.
I published OUR OWN WAY 3.
That’s it, in terms of actual production.
It wasn’t a total loss, though. I’m basically done with OUR OWN WAY 4, which is the longest one yet. People kept asking for them to be longer, so this one is larger. Not like crazy longer or anything, but longer. I hope to get it out soon.
I wrote about 2/3 of A WARM PLACE 8. I have the cover totally ready to go. So that’s good at least.
But oh my God, September hit me like a ton of bricks. It’s not like anything actually seriously bad happened, so don’t worry I’m hurt or lost a loved one or anything. It was more just…my mental health has become a lot more precarious over the last year. And all of a sudden a bunch of real life shit showed up all at once, just a bunch of separate issues that all happened to fall on September, and it was all stuff that I couldn’t delegate. I had to personally deal with each one. I don’t really want to go into anymore detail than that because I’m sure everyone reading this would be like ‘OMFG are you kidding me? That’s not a real problem', because it’s such simple stuff. It’s just that my ability to deal with stuff has eroded so much.
Like fuck, I just want to write stories about people fucking, can life just leave me alone?
And then, in the middle of all that, my laptop royally fucked itself. I brought it to some repair people and they were like ‘Fuck we can’t even turn it on’. So it had to get shipped out. I had to use a backup laptop and it was SUUUUUPER slow, and then even more shit happened with the laptop, but the good news is that I have a functioning fast laptop, but now I need to reorganize everything. Like all my files and shit. I’m actually in the middle of it right now so yeah. It’s a whole project. Also, I have to update all my titles AGAIN because of a few more changes I learned about. Fuck.
So once that’s done, then what?
Well, first I get out Our Own Way 4.
Then I bust ass and get out A Warm Place 8.
And then I’m shifting focus away from A Warm Place for a little bit. Like, it’s been fun, but oh fuck, I’m getting sick of it. Basically seven whole entire novels back-to-back since January. I know I took a break after A Warm Place 7 but like fuck, I need another one or I’m gonna lose it.
I’ve decided to go ahead and launch my fantasy caveman series! That’s what I’ll be working on next. And I’ll still be doing Our Own Way in the background. I’m not sure how long that’s going to go on for, but I’ve got a basic skeletal layout for it and I feel pretty safe saying there will be less than ten episodes. Sorry if that’s disappointing. When I first started it, I didn’t have much of a plan, but I realized how stupid that was, and now that I’m gearing up for this new pen name for real, I need to scale things back a bit in other departments.
The only thing I know for sure after that are two things: I’ll write the next A Warm Place novel after the first caveman novel, and I’ll be working on my pen name. I want to launch a pair of trilogies that could expand into more, or could just stay trilogies. I feel pretty confident about what those first two trilogies will be, but I’m just gonna shut up about it until we get closer to roll-out.
For now, it’s time to just put my head down, nose to the grindstone, and fucking write, write, write.