oyster50: Blog

Got a good job, good friends, both at work, outside work, and many here. Might not meet you face to face, but your encouragement and kind words keep me writing.

Like you, I wanna see what happens next.

Autumn makes a peek at South Louisiana - highs in the seventies, blue skies. Makes life quite pleasant.

Real life - because a lot of you have asked about my slow posting frequency - lot of work in Real Life. Some evenings writing just doesn't happen.

When it does, well, I like it too, folks. I had a driving need to see what happens too. I don't have this stuff laid out in an outline. It's pretty much pay as you go.

As always the direct comments as well as the interaction on the story comments section make me want to do even more.

Positive feedback. It's a good thing.

Life intrudes. Since the last year or so, the business climate has changed in the energy sector.

Used to be able to call up a contractor and say 'This is when we want it done' and they'd jump through hoops because they needed the business.

Something changed. Several of my work paths have gotten really sticky as their business picks up. Makes it hard to do MY business. For instance, a job that I wanted done last summer is going to take place the first week of November because the contractor's been booked solid.

I can pu an ad in the paper and get a boatload of baristas and sheaf full of panty-stackers, but try to get a transformer specialist or a team of good electricians. It's tough.

Anyway, I'm trying to get a bit more time to write. Just like you folks, I wanna see what happens to Sunny and Carl, and how Jerry survived his honeymoon, and what they say when Haley shows up for the private pilot test flying a seventy year old Stearman.

Hang with me folks. It's all coming...

Just posted Chapter 31 of Community because I was enjoying the idea of Terri on her honeymoon.

Dorable, my fickle little muse, has been being less than helpful of late. I intend on giving her a bit of a talk. I need to find out what happens when Haley and Bill and Deena get home, and what's going on with Sunny and Carl. Believe me, I need to find out as much as you guys do.

In the meantime, thanks for reading, and I appreciate the comments.

...At work. On the 'writing a story' front, though, dorable's been elusive, but I did send a chapter to the editor yesterday, so we'll get a bit of Bill & Haley & Deena soon.

I've been slowly ranging over the five states I take care of for my job, and that has a lot of bearing on not writing. I'm working on it, though.

Patience, folks! There are stories to tell.