I took a break

December 1st is the first day I’ve been back at it. At just half past November, I found myself grinding away at story ideas while simultaneously losing the struggle to maintain the basics of life. Unnumbered unmentionables were gathering against me.

In order to preserve a mote of sanity and physical health, I threw in the towel. Now, about two weeks later, I’ve returned to the blank page. I just wrote about five-hundred words and I did so knowing that I made it over my mountain of laundry, th...