Anne N. Mouse: Blog

For those wondering, I have been unable to contact or find any info on the status of Kid Wigger. This is sad because his magnus opus Flight of the Code Monkey deserved to be completed. But as someone wisely put it elsewhere, We do not know if we have tomorrow, so it behooves us to do today!

At least, I'll be working 208 hours a month... Putting some back, but if someone kind had not donated a fair chunk this would be going to having teeth pulled. Bleah!!
Still car shopping, but getting closer, I think to at least a beater to drive for a year or so. The main issue? I live in country (or at least work there) that is known to get at least a little snow every year. So for many reasons (including having to be winched out last year...) I'm considering AWD or 4WD a must. This puts most cars out of my reach without getting the bank involved. I'd like to not do that if at all possible... But, I may not have any choice. $5,000 I think I can swing pretty easily, but $8,000? or more? Not so easy... And it would eat all my emergency funds to do it if I did....
So writing? Am I doing any?
Not appreciably. I'm sorry, everyone who is waiting for an update, but given the rate I'm working, and the miles traveled every week? I'm not expecting to start writing at all soon.

Overcoming obstacles can make a good story. That of course is a given. I don't know that I do well at overcoming the issues in my life that stand in my way so far as life success goes... In some ways I've lived by avoiding the struggles involved in overcoming various obstacles...
Sad but true. Mediocrity seems to be my life and name....

I just finished reading Kenn Gannon's latest offering in the Swarm Cycle. Yes I know he says I contributed editing help to it, but I read it here too... Anyway reading that story and thinking of others got me to thinking about what my own fiction may be missing. I decided that the most glaring failure in my writing to date is the lack of a detestable villain.
Of course I know that the lack of a detestable villain is not the only difficulty I have with regard to producing compelling fiction. Just that it is one of the issues.
On my personal life... Lots, and lots of overtime. Not as much as some people who have written me are getting, but it does leave me a bit hammered, so not much is getting done with regard to writing.

I like working overtime... Well except for the utterly exhausted part at the end of every week! But the extra money is nice! I'm almost getting some 'sunk' funds set up now. So things are getting somewhat easier on the financial front. But putting this much hard labor in has definitely played hob with my writing, or even reading, for that matter! So to those hoping for something new from me, I say, I doubt I'll get there any time soon. So my stories will continue in hiatus for some longer time.
This also means that for anyone who wants to have me do proofreading that I've slowed down to a crawl at best. I doubt I am reading over 50,000 words a week.