Allan Joyal: Blog

Write that is. Hopefully a lot and of high quality. But that's the problem, how does one keep the output up. I'm not sure I ever figured that out, although so far this month I have had a better than average daily output. I need more though, so that my loving readers have something.

Not sure when the next chapter of A Woman Warrior will be ready. I know what i want to say, just need to get to it and I'm trying really hard on finishing other stories, so.... We shall see Xur. :P

I'm still trying very hard to get more books written, which means only a limited amount of time to work on stories for here, but I promise that I'll get another chapter of A Woman Warrior out soon.

As part of the search for cash I have been beating the internet looking for job interviews in my mundane and boring career. Today turned into 3 hours of skype interviews.

I think my brain melted during them.

But I shall soldier on and write later today. Thank goodness yesterday was a "bonus bug" type day where I managed over 7000 words. I can have a bad day today and still keep up with my goals for the current crisis.

I've been mostly working on a couple other stories, but I managed to add another chapter to Woman Warrior, so I've posted chapter 8 for everyone's enjoyment.

If you want to find out more I do have a Patreon account (I know, curses be on the moderators there, but it does have some uses.) The account is under my pen name Allan Joyal. I recently posted the first 2 chapters of what will be my next book on Amazon. The title is a bit in flux. I'm debating either "From Classroom 2b to King" or just "To Be or Not To Be, the King". Its a bit hard to decide. Those 2 chapters are a public offering, you don't have to support me to read them.

I may post the first chapter of a Swarm Cycle story that is somewhat parallel to Woman Warrior. It covers the same ride to the Borneo District, but from the viewpoint of a different citizen and their as usual non-standard household. That would require patronage to read.

And do keep up your comments in support. I don't manage to reply to everyone, but I do appreciate all the support.

More soon. :)

Well, like millions of others over the past 4 months or so, my former employer has had to slash its work force considerably and I ended up becoming one of the casualties.

I've often said that I want to make writing full time more than just something I talk about, and since I got my pink slip I've been trying to write 3000 or more words every day. Of course, the vast majority of this has been stories that I can provide to Amazon for sale. Unfortunately the Swarm Cycle tales violate Amazon's policy regarding the minimum age for certain adult activities and while I could edit them for publication, I've decided to keep them free and post them here.

I did add another chapter of A Woman Warrior, today. I won't promise to continue, but I have some partially done stories in addition to A Woman Warrior and as I find that I can continue to hit word counts daily, I'll try to give some time to entertaining you here as well.

This might all end next week if a company hires me, but honestly, the job market isn't all that good so who knows when my next interview will be.