Welp.

[loaded_march]

There's something about not posting (for whatever reason) that is its own self-fulfilling prophecy.  The longer I go without posting, the guiltier I feel, and the guiltier I feel, the longer I go without posting.

Here is a perfectly guilt-free post

I'm still around, though I haven't been checking anything with any kind of regular frequency, and therefore haven't been replying either.  I'm worse with emails, so if you've sent me something, it's probably still in my inbox languishing in despair because I haven't gotten my act together -- not because I'm ignoring anyone.  I'll get on that, I promise.

In early April, I vanished off the trace of the earth for a vacation.  I came back with what I hope is a mindset that sticks, because, as it turns out, a few things happened at my work that finally made a message sink in: nobody cares how much work I put in, and they can't fire me if I miss deadlines.  That rationale comes from the fact that many people blow their deadlines and nothing happens; one person in particular is going on six years with a project they haven't started on.  While management is unhappy, they can't get rid of this person.  Logically, I knew all this before, but it's finally sinking in.

(Took long enough.)

In writing news, I've done very little:

Patreon is still an empty little place more bereft than a ghost Wild West town (they've at least got tumbleweeds now and then), mostly because I'm not sure what to do with it, so I'll start by opening it up and finding out what I can do with it, and what people would most like to see.  After all, if I'm looking for patrons, the least I can do is find out what my patrons will want the most and that which I can deliver, yes?  Watch this space, I'll post the link this weekend.

On the actual writing side, I haven't done much since... well, my last post, really.  But I've figured out a lot of things regarding the conversion of LM into original fiction, and started on the current action plan (it turns out I was writing three books at once -- which didn't make sense until I broke it apart into story arcs and realized they'd work better on their own, because there's too much).  I've also done more worldbuilding for another story I want to start on, sobbed helplessly when I realized how many other original fics I started but never finished because of a shiny coin, and decided I'll be making a writing schedule to keep from getting overwhelmed by the sheer amount of shit I want to get done.

It'll get done.  I just hate being so slow about it.

How has everyone been?