I've been off the radar for a lot longer than I expected! Wow. My life took a couple of unexpected turns, starting last fall, as I lost another family member unexpectedly. I was in a dark place for a while, and that cost me my job when I snapped at a co-worker who had been antagonizing me for a long time.
I did a little consultation work while I looked for another job, and that work took all my writing time for the commute.
I eventually found a fantastic new job with a hefty pay bump (and a 1400 mile move to the west coast), and two weeks after I started, the world went into lockdown.
I was fortunate enough to keep my job, but with my wife in the same room as me all day every day my writing time was gone again. She may know that I write, but I can't write with her. It's weird.
Anyways, things are finally starting to normalize, and I just posted a new chapter in Extending the Family. It will be the last one for a long time, and I have marked the story finished, even though it's not.
I'm writing again, though not very much at the moment, but my muse is fickle, and I've started a new story in the same world. Expect very similar themes from a new, more jaded and cynical POV character. There may be a cameo from Extending the Family, and there definitely will be from Summer Vacation, if I ever finish enough of that to post.
I've only written 13k words for chapter 1 of Recanto das Prazeres, but there is a LOT of groundwork laid from the first story I was working on. I will be posting it as the chapters are done, like I did before, but I'm not going to even estimate a posting date for that chapter. Mostly because I've missed every writing deadline I've ever given myself.
As always, thanks to everyone who reads my perverted shit, and special thanks to those who reached out with kind words in my absence.