Once again, it’s been some time since my last entry to this blog. Fortunately (and finally!) I do have some progress to report:

I finished one of my short stories that I had placed in NYC (Played), about a month ago. It ended up being around 50 pages long, so I will reserve that for a future anthology. I also finished As Fate Would Have It, Part Two: Cutting Ties, just a few weeks go. Starbright was also finished just between the two short stories, and I have made incredible and steady progress on Her Majesty: The Case of Alexandrina Victoria, Book 4 in The Case Files series. Does it feel good to be cranking out so much writing? You have no idea! I’ve been tracking my word count each day and then tallying it up each week, which is really nice to see, though it does put me at competition with myself. Last week I ended with about 12k words. This week, I’m already past 15k. This is excellent as far as getting my books and stories closer to completion! However, I now have the two short stories and novel to edit–and there will be quite a bit of work in the cleaning up department for all of them!–and soon (at least at the rate I’m going), I will have another novel to add to that. I’m loving every second of this, and it’s a shame that I am still a slave to work that is so unfulfilling to my heart and soul, and barely allows me to live. I’m taking steps to change this, but it has been a frustrating journey in knowing that the Universe doesn’t appear to have my back. I could be wrong, and improvement could still be just around the corner. I think about that and at the same time, am coming to realize that maybe I never actually reach  that corner because the world is, in fact, a round one…Maybe at some point the powers that be will take my passion for writing as seriously as I do, and bring to me the sort of life necessary to cultivate and nurture my gift. I am embracing and loving my ability to write as much as time allows, and with as much joy–surely something will happen to allow the rest of my life to reflect that, including bringing me joy in many other areas of it…