Disappearing Act.
Yeah, unfortunately I’m pretty good at those.
It has been over two months since I posted regularly, and I apologize
for that. I don’t know if that means anything, as I have a tendency to
apologize for just about everything. Though, I know some of my dedicated
readers have missed it. At least my older sister did. Lol.
Other than all that I don’t know what to say about the situation. I’ll
try to do better. Now that I have a stable-ish job, I’ll get off around the
same time every day and I can start doing good habit things like working on the
same thing around the same time every day.
Although, I can tell you that work was one of the main reasons I wasn’t
posting. It’s not because my job is mentally hard (its McDonalds, I’m
overqualified for the job) but because my job is very physically demanding. I
know that sounds crazy. I mean it’s McDonalds, the first job most people have,
lazy people, and high school kids. How can it be a physically demanding job?
But, you have to realize that I work the grill. I’m making burgers all day, a
basic back and forth motion, (which has proven to be a real pain in the back)
and I get to truck the heavy boxes of meat around. I think the lightest box I deal
with everyday is the bacon box. It’s maybe, three pounds. Not impressive, but
when you compare it to the twenty-five/thirty pound nugget boxes, and don’t
even ask what the regular patties and the quarter patties weigh. Then there’s
the poor job some of our staff has at stocking the things in the freezer right.
Yeah, it’s a lot of fun to pull a box of French fries off a stack of
twelve of them, which goes over your head by about five feet.
Anyway, I’m going to stop talking about McDonalds before someone tells
them, and I get sued.
And, I would really guess that you would like to know about the good
stuff. The writing!
I have….finished nothing.
Yeah, when I got to the end of the second quarter of Cold Lunch I started
playing WOW again (World Of Warcraft), and that wound up dragging all of my
time straight down the drain. And, my uncle died, and WOW became a safer place
to be than my own thoughts. It still hurts to think about, but I have to move
on.
So, I’ve gotten over the WOW hump and have been writing again, and I
lied when I said I finished nothing. I finished Cold Lunch…the short story. Lol.
I’ve been meaning to rewrite the short story that inspired the novel since I finished
the first draft, and I used that as a spring board back into major writing. I’m
thinking about maybe trying to get it published. It might help garner a sell on
the book itself, and then help build some steam for the book. Basically, it
will be good PR.
As for other PR things, I’ve been working on In the Morning Light,
which a lot of people will be happy to see, considering I left them in the
middle of a cliff hanger. Lol. But, part of that was intentional too: the cliff
hanger part, which was already written in. The break from publishing it weekly
was when I ran out of material, the middle of a big pit of depression.
There’s good news though.
I have four of the last eight scenes/chapters written. And, I think I
might start reposting today. Or yesterday, considering I’ll have written this
on Friday, and you won’t see it until Saturday.
Anywho, I’m going to hop off here. It’s time to get to bed. I’ve got
work tomorrow.
Oh Joy! >.>
Ryan
And, as an advertisement, I’ve got the link to the new Chapter of In the
Morning Light!
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