Writer Mick: Blog

Hi All

I've been out here living my life and doing my thing for a whole year and Sunday I started to cough. Monday it got worse and I told my boss. He demanded I get to our company's health clinic and get tested for the Covid virus. I had no choice. I did. I got it!

So now I'm parked on my butt at home for 14 days. This is day three and my mind is already going nuts. However, it has given my muse an opening to bust into my busy schedule and make my fingers do the typing thing again.

I might be able to completely finish "Passion Of The O'Dells" in time to start it up right at the end of "The Fortune Of The O'Dells" and THAT will give me time to finish the last Strawberry Patch book.

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like what happened in my story "I Love This Virus" is going to happen to me. It's going to be a long and lonely couple of weeks.

Mick

Hi All

Yes, I have again been told "You suck" and in a few cases people actually told me why!

I fixed some context issues in "Surprise" and then some name references in "Regency".

And thanks to the people who voted for "Expect Me When You See Me" and brought it up to a score of 8 for about a day. Then back to 7.99. Oh well.

I hope the fixes make the "You Suck" crowd change their votes.

Mick

Hi All

Well December has shaped up to be a synopsis of 2020 for me. No I've not gotten the virus, but now in hindsight I think it highly likely that way back in March, I was afflicted with it. It was during our Spring Break and I was on a hotel for a week, alone, because all of the places I went to visit had been closed.

No this month just has been one of question marks. What's going to happen next? How is it going to change tomorrow? Will the changes remain in effect past tomorrow? Should my church move their services to a safe place like WalMart? You know, all of those really weighty questions.

In the mean time, I have had my schedule change so many times it has upset my writing rhythm to the point that I am concerned that I may not have the next Strawberry Patch book ready to go when "The Fortune of the O'Dells" ends.

I'm hoping that over the Christmas to New Years week I'll be able to jump in with both hands and type myself back into the groove. There are also several other projects calling my name and my organizational muse is off somewhere being organizational.

At any rate, if I don't get back to you over the next few weeks, please have a Merry Christmas (if you celebrate it), a Happy Holiday (if you don't), and Happy New Year and please be safe if you travel.

In the meantime, I'm hoping that readers will vote "Expect Me When You See Me", Friends and Family", and maybe even "I'll See You When I See You" up into the 8's since they are all sitting at 7.99, 7.93 and 7.86 respectively.

Am I pandering for votes? Yup! big time!

Thanks again for reading and for your comments.

Mick

Hi All

Had a few uninterrupted moments at work and this story sort of flowed out. To say that it might be a tad autobiographical would be accurate. To say that my stories didn't end like this one would also be correct.

This is a big weekend. I don't have to work at all and I plan to finish "Returning To Speak" and do some serious damage on both the next Strawberry Patch and O'Dell saga.

Stay safe and free!

Mick

Hi All,

I've let myself slip into a state of terrible laziness. Since I've finished writing "The Fortune Of The O'Dells" I actually stopped writing for a few weeks and now it's pure hell to get back into it on a daily basis.

To date I have 8 chapters of the new O'Dell saga done and 10 chapters of the next Strawberry Patch story done.

The today I noticed that I only have 9 weeks of "The Fortune Of The O'Dells" remaining before I need to start the next saga. Needless to say I had a slight freak out and spent a large portion of Thanksgiving and this afternoon writing chapters 11 & 12 of the Strawberry Patch.

Now I just have to finish the next 40 chapters, get them proofread and edited before I can post the first chapter.

I suppose I could blame all this on my muse for not being an evil slave driver, but I can't. It's my fault. I'll get back up to snuff here again tomorrow and Sunday and see how much headway I can make.

Thanks for reading "The Fortune of the O'Dells" and for scoring it to the brink of an 8 score.

I do appreciate your readership and want to honor it with as clean a post as I can provide.

Thanks

Mick