Bogged down
I'm drowning… in paperwork, in detail and nitty gritty, in car hunting and dealing with life.
Sometimes it happens this way and the creation of new plots, places and characters goes on hold. It's just the way it is and it often happens to me around this time of year. It's getting warmer, but the ground is still far too cold and wet to work properly without compacting the soil. I'm itching to get out into the garden but having to settle for sowing a few seeds in pots on my windowsills – which are now full!
My car is in need of either work or replacement and, if I'm honest, replacement will be cheaper – so I'm car hunting. My accounts need catching up, my websites need work and I've got involved in a Charity Project – With Love. All that means that I'm firmly in business mode.
It seems like I have two heads, several in fact, but these two are the ones I'm thinking about. If I'm in business and money mode then I can do marketing, accounts, website work, and I can fit editing into that too. But somehow the characters and creation doesn't flow until those tasks are finished. On the flip side, when I'm creating then I can't settle to the other stuff.
So, I'm editing, working on publishing, writing web content and getting numbers crunched. Which means that Child of the Portal will be inching it's way closer to release…
