Update from Chaos City

[ratbones]

So my life did not stop being a cavalcade of lesser cataclysms since my last post - I've been ill, then had a sequence of urgent and unplanned work projects, then a death in the family, and next week I'm moving house, not exactly unexpectedly but sooner than I thought.

I have a fairly small amount of final editing work to do on the novel using the beta feedback which is just sitting in my inbox, but when I have pockets of free time I haven't been able to think clearly enough to do that sort of exacting work. I've been adding words to a TGAA fic instead, which doesn't ask quite so much of me...And that also is going painfully slowly. Beta readers: I'm not ignoring you on purpose! Nothing I'd rather be doing than actually using your work to polish the manuscript. Cannot wait to get back to it, if the universe will please just cut me a break.

Anyway this is just to say I haven't dropped off the face of the earth, at least not willingly. Ughhhh. I really try to keep a stable, healthy, boring lifestyle that preserves my energy for writing and thinking and such, and I'm deeply frustrated by all the outside forces conspiring against that recently.

Comments

[trobadora]

I'm so sorry for your loss!

Good luck for the move, and I hope you find time/mental space for your novel soon. *hugs*

[ratbones]

Thank you! Hopefully the move goes smoothly and I can get back to normal then. *hugs*

[clevermanka]

That sounds stressful and exhausting and ... well, just rough. Hope you have people to support you, both emotionally and practically.

[ratbones]

It's been a real grind, sigh. Thanks. I do have people to help, which I'm very grateful for.

[umadoshi]

Ooof, that is a lot. :(

I hope the move goes as smoothly and painlessly as possible.

[ratbones]

Yeahhh it's been a real pile-up. Moving is always an ordeal but I'm not going far and the new place is nice, so there's that!

[nnozomi]

Very sorry about all the chaos, wishing you calmer times to come. (No worries about beta reading stuff! It happens for your convenience, not the other way around.) <3

[ratbones]

Thank you so much, you've been very generous with your time. <3

[tinny]

Beta readers: I'm not ignoring you on purpose!

Author: I'm not ignoring you on purpose! <3<3<3

I had a very stressful month, too, and just dropped everything that required concentration. /o\ Lets hope that the universe will let us find back to our respective calm corners so we can properly concentrate on the fun things again!

[ratbones]

Ahaha, well, good timing for rough times, as it were. Yes, let's hope we both have calmer waters ahead soon! <3 Being too bogged down to focus on anything reeeally sucks.