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Drizzle and coffee and that damned flicker who likes to tap on the sliding glass door because he’s lonely or thinks me chasing him off is the greatest game in the world.
But you know how woodpeckers can be.
Just now finished that last bit of Ollie, Book Three that I had had to put aside last year about this time when my world kind of collapsed in on itself.
The Lost Year.
I’m in a lot better shape mentally and emotionally than I was this time last year. Writing is going well. I’ve put aside several projects, but have picked some of them back up and grinding forward.
At this point, I have completed Heather 4 and Ollie 3. Both have one more novel each to complete their arcs, which brings me joy, because I want to get those done after they’ve been hanging out there for so long. Got a lot of old stuff coming out of the trunk this year. More next.
Anti-Stodgy bitches because I want to start new projects. Colossus, which is coming soon. Red Branch 6, because I’m having fun learning history. Scattered Tribes and The Inheritors.
So much to do.
Hadn’t expected Ollie to end on me quite this sharp, but emotionally it fell perfectly into that last cliffhangar. That’s why they all have to drop in sequence, because they each end on that drop, rather than solving some important step on the longer road. More of a trilogy feel, with two Act Twos in the middle.
Karate Monday nights continues to be fun. Learning a whole bunch of new things,and being able to help teach, because I’m a lot deeper into the curriculum than most of the others at this point (they all have belts in Isshinryu, including a couple of black, but this is new material to them).
Gonna take a break here and figure out what to write next. Probably something short for one of my various projects. Always need new things.
Details next week. (FILM AT 11!)
heh.
shade and sweet water,
b
West of the Mountains, WA
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