I was not ready for January.
So, that phrase I mentioned earlier, about how if you don’t make time for your body to rest, then your body will make time. And I think that’s what happened. I feel like I more or less got jumped at the start of the year. I’ve been having completely new medical problems, combined with intensifying emotional problems. They were pretty intense and frightening at the start of the year, but they’ve at least calmed down a bit. I’m presently trying to navigate the medical industrial complex, which is always a difficult, irritating, and at times terrifying prospect.
It does not help that, for obvious reasons, life in general just got significantly worse for most in my country. That’s stressing me beyond anything else, honestly. I’ve never been an optimist but Jesus Christ is it already so bad here.
But hope is the logical option, so I hope, and I continue to do the only thing I really know how: write.
That being said, clearly I made the wrong call about trying to set a schedule for myself this year. I genuinely didn’t think I was going to run into something like this. This is the equivalent of falling down immediately at the start of a race, faceplanting into dogshit, and then exploding outright.
The good news is that Down the Rabbit Hole Episode 02 is out. I’ve also got the cover art for the first collection and it features Chloe and Rain. And the next one, which features Brooke, is being worked on. I’ve begun writing Episode 03 and it’ll be posted to my Patreon and should still be on time for March 1st. The rest of the good news is that I am finally actively working on Our Own Way 5. I’ve gotten the first couple of chapters written and I’m trying to make more regular progress. The problem is that writing is really difficult for me right now. Like this has been really disruptive to my life in general.
I’ve finished my portion of the work on Dead Freeze 3 and passed it off to Lara, (in other words, I admitted that I wasn’t going to be able to handle a similar workload this time around). Ideally it should be out sometime this month, but it might be not come out until March.
Um…good luck to us all.