ElSol: Blog

My infection came back and worse than before; the urgent care referred me to a specialist. Unfortunately, by then it had been beaten down enough for the specialist to be unable to do anything. Fortunately, the specialist wants me to go direct to them if it crops up again, because she feels we're not killing the infection completely and it is taking advantage when I get sick from something else.

So here is hoping for the best or the best of the worst!

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Work is... let's just say that I'm in the middle of two large projects and one of them involves me doing the job of several people that get paid more than me. Their model of their 'job' does not include knowing shit about the data!

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No AMR is not going to be continued any time soon.

Right now, even though it changes my writing plan, I am edging towards the second Energy Wizard story and finishing the Wellspring Duology.

The biggest problem is that the second Energy Wizard story is bigger in my head than the structure I limited myself to -- no, I will not change the structure, it's sort of the point.

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Of course, this is like the fourth plan since I entered the cycle if disease and work insanity.

And it sucks that a 'Justified' teen-MC keeps cropping into my head. Although as it has mm scenes, I doubt I will ever do it except as a writing exercise to get it out of my head.

I finally got the 'Demons' first chapter completed and edited -- but I may have to kill someone if I really get into it and have to stop because that one is as bad mentally as my zombies story was.

I also have started and scrapped multiple versions of a third 'magic' stories... One that takes the next step of magic acceptance from Energy and Wellspring to where magic users as the 'celebrities' of a world... Can't quite get that one right although the zombie version was pretty good in the outline and the first couple of chapters.
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Yeah, too many story ideas floating around especially when i don't have the time to just bang one or two of the small ones out.

Oh yeah, house renovation so my wife can be happier... but I would not suggest renovating the family room and living room when you have a hyperactive toddler. (Thank you Disney for Frozen which is the only thing the kid will sit for!)

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Nothing much else as I don't see an end to my pain for another two weeks, so I will know then whether or not I will be getting any writing time.

Finally on the other side of the health issues... I hope.

Mostly finished with the second Wellspring story but not liking the rhythm differences between the first and the second. In the first story, the protagonist is frustrated and excitable... But in the second, he is much calmer and in control of his environment which is very unlike the template I use for him... More of a 'Simon'.

I will continue to refine it.

For now I am going to focus on my Japanese manga-ish story.

I am also hoping to take this chance of calmness to make a major change in my life.

A few series will be dropped from my writing plan ... The second swarm story, any other Wolf Summers story, etc.

I am hoping to do a do-over stroke story but it may not happen as I have a feeling the manga story will drain me as it took almost a month to make the prologue tight enough.

My wife had to go in for some emergency surgery. Hopefully, this explains some problems she's been having lately.

Anyway -- this is preventing a few things from happening in my life including new writing.

Maybe this will be the end.

My uncle was a 'character' so his death also had 'character'. Let's just leave it at that and not discuss the six siblings interaction which I had to drag my cousin away from.

Of course, work is a mess. We are switching database technologies and the junior engineers do not yet understand to LOOK IN THE FUCKING LOG FILES!!!

I owe some people stuff -- just reading and commenting on stories so I hope to get to that next week. This weekend is for vegging on the couch... hopefully my daughter will be agreeable to some very long naps on top of her father.

I will be doing an audit of my series and incomplete stories with an eye to cutting stories down that I want to work with. My wife wants baby #2 so I have a limited amount of time before hell rains down on me. I'd prefer to leave only AMR incomplete before baby #2 arrives and work on that in my spare time.

I have started to outline my anime-hentai fan story... don't know how deep it gets as I want to make a few changes before the wife and I start trying for #2.

Death in the family.

My younger cousin's father is the final way. I am actually closer to my cousin than my own siblings, so this is the worst death of the prior generation so far. Only an aunt-in-law and an uncle have died so far of my parent's generation, so I think this the beginning of that exodus.

I am sure this will mark some of my stories as I progress.

Well... not much else to say. Trying to keep my head down and let this lousy December and January pass me by.