ROW80: Birthdays and the Dark Tower

For this past half week only I changed my ROW80 goals. I just had to finish the Dark Tower series.

Needless to say that between my busy family life, working week (including  – self drive – commute) and writing time, reading is more often than not something which happens in those few blissful moments between awake and asleep. Those wonderful minutes where, curled up in bed everything is either history or the future. The present is no more. Even then I would be luck to read more than 5 or 10 pages a night depending on how soon the soothing fingers of sleep would wrap around my body and squeeze me into wonderous oblivion.

Therefore please both forgive and indulge me for I just had to finish the journey by Roland's side lest the weary gunslinger tire of my dalliance and move on without me. Not to mention that it was my Birthday yesterday (31st May) and I celebrated it on Sunday so that was two days kind of written off.

I am  sure you can tell that writing was not done in much quantity this first half of the week, I think maybe 1000 in total but I am good with that because I finally made it to the top of the Dark Tower. The only thing is, that unlike Roland I can now move on to novels new. The Books of Blood Volumes 4, 5 and 6, along with Kait Nolan's Forsaken By Shadow on the Kindle.

I now have almost two weeks vacation from works and my eldest son has school so in between entertaining my other two children and keeping the house tidy I hope to get caught up with my writing. With the aid of some late nights and while still early (05.15am) mornings -as my children don't seem to understand the concept of sleep- the lack of office pressures means I can relax and unwind. Two things which are long since overdue.

Just to discuss writing in some small portion as that is the point of this entire posting (in theory) I am thinking of posting an extract of Through Hell and High Water later on this week, and maybe even add a new chapter to my Zombie short story just to help me unwind my creative mind and let it run free and unabashed over the keyboard for once. (It likes that)