Missives from Isolation For Real This Time #1 – WHY (also SPSFC)

Spoke too soon when I stopped putting ‘lockdown’ in the title, didn’t I?

I am now self-isolating, as is the rest of my house. Until today we had one person sealed in their own room and seeing nobody, but now we’re up to 3/5 testing positive, not including me (though how the last two of us haven’t got it yet we have no idea). Which is just great, given that we all need to move out of the house we’re currently stuck in within a few weeks. Nobody’s fault. We’re just all a bit frustrated.

So that leaves me sitting at home all day for at least the next 10 days. I’m still working, so that’ll be most of my time, but I’ll try and get some writing done around it.

I had a much longer post planned about how I’d been coping with the initial isolation (which was pretty well), but I’m not feeling it right now. Next week I should be in a better mood. It’s a good coping mechanism I’ve found myself, and I will tell you about it – but it needs a few more days to work on me first.

In a bit of better news, while Ad Luna was eliminated from the SPFBO, it is now a contender in the brand-new SPSFC (Self-Published Science-Fiction Competition)! Not sure which blog I’ve been assigned to yet, but it should be a fun little competition and I’m looking forward to seeing what people think of the book.

Sorry for a bit of a downer post. But I’ll be alright.