Planning for the Future

(Spoken by Nimue, Scribed by James)

At the moment, planning for the future is really difficult. There is no knowing how my vision will work after the next operation. I’m currently waiting to get to that point so that I can figure out what to do. However, not being able to read or write has left me in a weird limbo state, and feeling a bit lost, so I decided to just go ahead and plan anyway.

I’ve promised myself that by some means or another, I will be able to get back to writing. If my eyesight isn’t up to the job, I’ll have to learn how to work by other means. That in turn would involve learning how to think and create in a totally new way. One way or another, I shall write more books.

In the meantime, I am thinking about this strange time as a chance to incubate. My intention is to get back to writing poetry and I’m going to have a lot to draw on. I’ve learned a lot, and have a lot to say that may be better expressed as poetry rather than prose.

I’ve also decided to treat this time as a research period. I’m spending a lot of time with non-fiction audio books. I’m not currently researching specific details, but absorbing a lot with a view to finding a story for later. It’s like laying down mulch ahead of growing a crop. Hopefully. I have worked this way before, although not in a long time. Learning for the sake of it and letting the story flow from there is effective for me, and likely to take me in new directions.

Currently, I’m spending a lot of time with microbes, one way or another.