No, I haven’t forgotten about this place or forgotten my password or anything like that. I’ve been busy the past couple of weeks moving about 1,200 miles across country and starting a new job. Since I’m getting paid for my 10 am – 7 pm time block — and since I did not have the Internet at the apartment until yesterday — I haven’t been doing a lot of posting here. I’m still hard at work on Midnight of Lanar’ya and have plans to have the draft completed by the end of April. Twilight of Lanar’ya just had its final cover check today (thanks a bunch, Keary!) and I should be uploading the final cover and ordering the proof before the end of this week.
A while back, either here or over at Magisters’ Terrace, I talked about achieving a work-life-writing balance. I do fully intend to get my balance back but starting a new job does require a bit more of my time and concentration since I want to do an absolutely smashing job at work so that they decide they want to keep me. Once I get over the eggshells of being the “new person” and feel a little more secure on my feet (trust me, moving cross-country and starting a new job all at once may be fun, but it’s a nerve-wracking kind of fun. Imagine riding Space Mountain only without the adrenaline rush), I’ll relax more in the evenings and be able to write more. I’m also working on tying up the last bits of Alayne’s Story — a long World of Warcraft fanfic I started back in 2007 and am bringing to a close nearly five years later. Finishing up any piece of work that you’ve spent five years on takes a bit out of you. I know that, perhaps, one day, after the distaste of the next scheduled expansion has been purged from my being, I may pick up Alayne’s Story again. However, for now, I’m bringing it to a close and that’s taking a lot of the energy that I would otherwise be putting into Midnight of Lanar’ya.
And yeah, there have been a couple of instances of me goofing off playing Star Wars: The Old Republic to relax. I figure it’s better to do that and chill out a bit than to force myself to do a bad night’s worth of writing just to say “there, I worked on Midnight of Lanar’ya.” I may not get as much done right now as I’d like but, believe me, it’s much easier to catch up than it is to try to salvage pages that should never have been written to begin with.
But, for now, I’m going to go curl up with one of R.A. Salvatore’s Drizzt books (The Crystal Shard and no spoilers please!), relax a bit, and then do a little bit more work on Alayne’s Story and Midnight of Lanar’ya before I turn in for the night.
