Undeserved Rest

The holidays are always exhausting, and this year has been no different.  I took a nice 5 day weekend to enjoy Christmas with my family, and the extra excitement has left all of us completely wiped out.  I’ve made efforts to return to my normal writing schedule, only to sleep completely through my alarm not once, but twice.  Ben went without an afternoon nap 2 days running, and yesterday developed an ear infection.  A mild one, thankfully; we caught it in time to start nuking it with antibiotics before it was able to do more than make him mildly uncomfortable.  But that has meant some stressful, sometimes sleep-shallow nights.  All of us are ready for another break.

So that’s it.  I’m done for the year.  After the dust settles next week, I’ll suit up again, and descend once more into the ink-stained trenches.  I will be trying out my newly-purchased license of Scrivener for Windows, and making some headway once again.

Until then, I can’t promise that I’ll be updating this site with any regularity.  But then, I’ve never really managed regularity to begin with, so this rest may be a bit undeserved.   But 2011 was a bit of a wild ride – Achron was released, I got a new work-at-home position, and I started really started to put some muscle into writing for myself again.  As for 2012:  I’ve got three short stories in pipeline, and after that, a novel.  I aim to finish all four of those by the end of the year.

May the new year be better than the last.

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