And so on ...

I've been thinking for awhile that I haven't been keeping in touch with people.  Covid stay-at-home orders don't help.  Now I will be even more isolated since the barn has shut down.  The last saddlebred show horses were auctioned off last Saturday, for next to nothing.  At least I don't think the attending meat buyer got any of them.  So that aspect of my life has ended.  (Well, yes, I could volunteer at another stable, but it wouldn't be the same.  And I think I've been done with all of that for awhile.)

Anyway, I haven't posted here for awhile either.  Sorry about that.

I've been stuck on the same short chapter for months.  It's about a Central Lands' god-farce where at least one of the local gods shows up via his favorite actor.  This is the society that believes in ancestor worship, and now something is preying on newly-dead, would-be gods, sort of a different version of Demons, more keyed to Kencyr involvment.  Still, this shouldn't be so hard.  Fact is, though, this whole novel is hard.  I'm trying to plot it and the finale at the same time, figuring out what events go where.  Your advice about loose ends has helped.  I have maybe 150,000 words in my note draft, perhaps 60,000 in more or less finished form.  The deadline was to be September.  I've gotten an extension, though, and hope to fight my way through this funk.  Sorry for the delay.

So, stay safe and be heathy.  If you can.

Pat