Kenn Ghannon: Blog

Between my personal life and my work life, I've been running myself ragged the past three months. I've gotten very little writing done - there are just not enough hours in the day and my work suffers when I'm tired; who knew sleep was a worthy endeavor after all?

Based on my notes, I'm just about half-way through 'Runesward Tome 2'. Thankfully, I've some editors lined up so that is in position to move forward.

I've written bits and pieces of 'InCAPable' as ideas strike me. I've started a few other stories and even cleaned up/wrote a few new pages of an old story I'd abandoned long ago.

There just has not been time to really sit and focus. Now that I have two weeks off, I expect I'll get a FEW moments to write (holidays are all about family in my house) but it's going to be rough. Thankfully, one of my Christmas presents is a brand-spanking-new laptop so I'll soon be able to write from places beyond my office. Yay me! (Of course, it's a gaming laptop so all of my time won't be spent writing ... funny how that works ...)

Anyway, in case I get bogged down and forget - I hope all of you and yours have a very Merry Christmas and a joyous, prosperous New Year. May the worst of the years ahead of you be better than the best of the years behind you.

Sincerely,
Kenn Ghannon

I decided to end my hiatus today and what better way to end it than with a BANG?!? Actually, I floated the idea of this joke last week to the Swarm Author's group and they were of two minds - either I would be reviled beyond measure or people would get it. Either way, they told me I was EVIL for doing it.

Well, that's the right attitude to be a writer, I suppose. Sometimes, you just have to let your inner EVIL out to play. :)

In recompense for my (possibly) ill-conceived joke, I will be posting the remainder of 'Fairly CAPable' later today (the final 2 chapters). I hope that helps. :)

A chapter in 'Fairly CAPable' made someone physically ill because it reminded them of their own rape experiences. I didn't consider Chapter 22 'rape' because, while unwilling, the concubines in Swarm stories are slaves ... but, thinking it through, you can definitely rape slaves so...

I NEVER wanted to be 'that guy'. I never wanted to write something that made someone physically ill. The e-mail has been weighing on my since I read it. I got very little sleep last night.

I was of three minds late last night. Part of me just wanted to throw all of the rest of 'Fairly CAPable' up and let it be judged in whole instead of in pieces. In the full context, Chapter 22 becomes a part of the whole story.

Another part wanted to do away with Chapter 22 and just show the aftermath in Chapter 23. As I read it over, looking at it in a new light, Chapter 22 was gratuitous and unnecessary. I thought it would be visceral and induce a sense of disgust. I thought it was important to show the depths of Leo's soul. I thought wrong. I could have done similar work - without such disgust - by just showing the results of his actions and kept the torture off-screen.

The final part of my mind is the one I think I'm going to follow. Chapter 22 is out there and the internet remembers everything. No one is going to forget that I wrote it. Besides, I don't think I have it in me to get inside Leo's head again to re-write Chapter 23.

So, I'm going to take a hiatus - not from posting, the story is set to autopost for the next week or so and I'll stop in to make sure the whole thing gets out there. I'm going to take a hiatus from reading - possibly until the whole of the story is posted so it can stand or fall on it's own, complete merits.

If you write me e-mail, I promise to read and respond when I return. If you post comments to the story, I'll read those when I return.

I've always said I write for myself. That is true.

However, I enjoy the comments - even the negative ones so this is NOT an indictment of those who couldn't palate the story; I am thankful for every comment and e-mail I receive (even those that intimate I was born illegitimately as a piece of dung). They will all make me a better writer, something to which, even at my age, I aspire. So, I'm certainly not avoiding critique - I just need to step away from it for a few moments.

I really am not 'THAT' guy. Hurting others with my imagination is certainly not something I ever considered.

My computer is broken. I custom built my computer with a water-cooling loop (instead of the AIO I used on my last build). I changed the water and added a temperature gauge Friday night - it shouldn't have been a big deal. It wouldn't have been a big deal - except I didn't tighten the fittings as well as I thought I had. I tested the loop without powering the device and I didn't see a leak. When I started the computer however.

Sizzling sounds and the acrid burning smell are NOT something you want to hear from your computer.

I went and got a new motherboard. It wouldn't boot. I took it back and got another. Still wouldn't boot. I replaced the processor. Now it would boot - but I couldn't get a picture. Replaced the video card. Still no video - and now the motherboard stopped booting. I think I know their error codes by heart now.

I took the motherboard, processor and video card back. I'm having them delivered from an online store ...

Did you know there was a Covid-induced backlog on computer components? Me either.

Needless to say, I'm using an ancient laptop right now which I had in the dustbin to be recycled. We'll see how long it lasts...

You may have noticed I've yet to post Chapter 22 of Fairly CAPable. I apologize for the delay - I'm having some computer issues. I'll post the chapter as soon as I'm able - but it might not be today ...