New Year, New Book

04-01-2020

Now that the dust has settled, the festive season is over, and most of our humdrum lives are kicking back in, I'm finally getting some down time to write. At least I think I am, I'm not too sure if 'down time' is actually a thing anymore, particularly when you've to be a parent as well.

As I said in a post towards the end of the year, I'm going to try and put up entries a bit more regularly this year. For a while the site has just been gathering digital dust as I refused to get rid of it but didn't make time to post entries up either. It was a weird situation to be in.

I had spoken with the ladyfriend a few times over the last two years about shutting down the site completely. I wrote it (the code) back when I had time to do such things and be constantly tweaking for improvements. But that was just an excuse to keep coding in my spare time. There are other, better maintained, sites that people can use for blogs these days. My plan had been to maybe migrate all the stuff here to one of those accounts.

But there is a special place in my heart for this little spot of the web. There always will be. I was never going to just get rid of it completely. Maybe look at some way of linking it with another site so the publishing happens in multiple places.

Anyway, that's rambling.

Writing.

That's what this post is about. I haven't written a word, at least not in the novel sense of writing, for about five weeks now. I finished up on Duplex Tempus, my first attempt at a sci-fi novel, at the start of December. Then "The Month of Illness" hit the house in a big way, which basically had very little time left over to do things like 'enjoy your hobbies'. I'm not sure about you, but when life throws me lemons the energy levels get sapped while I make the lemonade.

But that is all changing now that we're back into normal mode with regards to life. I mean how can that even be a thing? How can taking nearly two weeks off work, effectively removing the biggest time sucking element from your day to day, result in so little time to actually work on non-work related things?

The universe is a strange and messed up place.

Anyroad, the next book that I'm going to start working on will be another Filthy Henry novel. I've plotted it out roughly at the minute. I've a bit of tweaking to do here and there, some research on aspects of the legends I am going to be pulling in. Overall, however, I'm pretty happy with how it is looking so far. More importantly it has been two years since I wrote about Filthy Henry.

Time to put back on the mental trench-coat and get back into the frame of mind of the most sarcastic detective ever to work in Ireland.

Should be fun.

Blue_jester




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