Long time, no blog. My original idea was to have at least a blog
entry a week. That would keep me
motivated and on-track and keep up a nice web presence, right? Then again, is anyone actually reading this
stuff…? Hello? HELLO?
hello… hello… [echo]
Well recently real life has
been getting in the way. Most notably we
have been house hunting for almost a month now.
My work days start at 5am and on the days we’ve been checking out houses
they don’t end until 7 or 8pm. That’s a long damn day. Even now that we’ve found a house (and a nice
one too) it doesn’t get much easier, what with the paperwork and all. All that on top of a 50+ hour work week and
family time and everything else, needless to say I am behind on my personal objectives,
most importantly writing. A couple weeks
ago I realized that blogging was going to have to take a backseat, maybe to
every other week. Hopefully I can still
maintain that (I should be able to, anyway).
But even back-logged, I’m
still trudging forward. I am currently
working on a story formerly known to me as "Vermin", the first draft of
which I wrote about 5 years ago (maybe more) and am now rewriting. My hope is to have it ready to submit to the
Writers of the Future Contest but the cap there is 17,000 words (about 50
pages) and as of right now this story is beyond that. After some reworking and harsh editing, who
knows? But I’d like to be done and have
it submitted by September 30th, which is a pretty harsh and
fast-approaching deadline. If it doesn’t
all work out “Prince” may be an e-book available soon. Then I’d like to have my book-length
collection One-Eyed Jacks done by
November 30th because one of
the stories featured in it will be the weekly audio-story told on the horror-zine
podcast Pseudopod.org. (Be sure to tune in for that, it’s free! Don't worry, I'll remind you...) But that gives me only 2 months to rewrite,
revise, and reformat what will likely be nearly 200 pages of material. May not make it. Thus, again, blogging takes a back seat.
So I’m not disappearing,
just wandering around inside my new haunted house; perhaps I fell through a
trapdoor or the bookshelf moved and swallowed me up. Just don’t tune out completely, cuz I’m still
here with more blogging fun to come, I promise! I have one more X-men entry to make (Brotherhood of Evil Mutants) and went through a very brief Blood Angels period last week (cheatin' vampire bastards).
Here's a couple of teaser pics just to get things started (for whenever it is I get time to follow-up):
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