CategoryStruggles

June (?!) 2022 – Life and Writing Updates

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It’s over halfway through June already?!  Where does the time go? Warning:  This turned into a fairly long piece where I discuss what’s been going on in my life the last few months.  If you’re only interested in my future writing updates, search for “What’s Next on the Writing Front?” to jump to it. What’s Been Going on in My Life? So, since my last...

Where Am I? – February 2022 Update

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Time certainly does fly, doesn’t it? Seems like it was just Christmas, and here we are, already the first of February. Though I haven’t posted any new stories since the last part of Anything for a Scoop, I haven’t been idle. I’ve been giving some time to trying a rotating writing schedule, switching between settings/projects on a weekly basis. This little experiment has...

Happy Easter, Updates, and Questions

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Hey there everyone, hope you’ll be having a Happy Easter this weekend, and if you don’t celebrate that particular holiday, hope you have a good one anyway! Due to the holiday and need for me to work on the lawn (its that time of year again after all), I’m not going to have an update on P5 this week.  However, that’s not the only reason I’m not doing an update. ...

Consume Less, Create More

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A bit late this week, but I’ve been fighting off what might be the flu; it’s been going around the office something fierce, and I think it’s trying to bring me down.  So far it’s not gotten worse than a runny nose, a cough (which seems to be developing into a seasonal cough I always seem to get around spring that lasts forever but then suddenly developed into a sore throat...

Struggles in Writing – A Multiverse of Possibilities

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-A galaxy-spanning space opera, with treasure hunters and giant robots. -An Old West that is not our own, filled with a mix of fantastic races and ancient technologies. -A world of super-powered heroes and villains facing off in a world ruled by the offended with social media accounts. -The hills of Eastern Kentucky, but filled with horrors beyond imagining. -A post-apocalyptic land with mutants...

From the Post Apocalypse to the Far Future (With Giant Robots!)

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Proving that my mind knows no ability to stay focused anymore, I’ve found myself on a completely different train of thought since Saturday morning. A friend of mine showed me the trailer for the new Sakura Wars game that is coming out in April, and I was reminded that I hadn’t gone back and listened to the original version of the opening theme that I fell in love with back in the 90s...

New Beginnings as I Struggle to Change Myself

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Hey, everyone.  It’s been a while, and that’s completely my fault. This last year has been a struggle, mostly with myself, as I try to find some kind of balance in my life that I’m satisfied with. Let me lay it out…I’m going to be 37 this year, and with that, there’s been a lot of baggage on my mind.  The big one is that my father and his brother both died in...

Struggles in Writing – The Plan

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Plans evolve and change at an almost daily rate sometimes, and that holds especially true with my goals here.  Work and home life seem to take up more and more time, even as I make efforts to try and cut back on my other hobbies to focus on this site.  My weekends literally evaporate before I can get anything done.  I honestly don’t know where the Saturday before last went, and this three...

Struggles in Writing – YouTube

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YouTube…the great distraction. Probably my most fearsome enemy when it comes to writing at all.  I can’t count how many times I’ve said to myself “I’ll just watch a few vids and hit the keyboard”, and then by the time I realize what’s happened, hours have passed and it’s time for bed. Years ago, I never had that kind of problem.  Then again, years...

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