And then 3 months passed without a blog post.

My impression was that it was longer and that I’ve barely put pen to paper for longer but see that I was raring to go on the revision of Certainty of Dust late last year.

I also note that I’ve not written a word this year – in fact it’s hard to remember when the last time was that I penned a new story – probably the one that I submitted in February to ParSec that was rejected? (which I think was written last year)

My perception is that I’ve barely written since staring the new job (June 21) but correlation may not equal causation here – although certainly I’m no longer commuting and the new job makes me actually think.

I have continued to edit though – 2 books for Rebellion this year, 1 book for Grimbold, 1 issue of BFS Horizons coming to bookshops soon. And been reading for ‘work’ – 1 review done for BFS with three more on the way.

I’m aware I’m behind on WAWAW, with posting about the reading that is – it’s difficult to get behind on a constant task (and yes I’m aware that I’m supposed to be deciding upon 1 shelf of writing books but more keep coming in all the time). So will get onto writing that ASAP (for a certain value of ‘soon’).

I did also run a workshop at Cymera which was… interesting – never had imposter syndrom so bad or panicked so much about an event before. But it seemed to go OK. Not sure I’ll be keen to repeat the experience though.

I’ve also had an offer wrt an event but am currently wondering what to do with that – more info when possible.

And so, I need to get on with the revision – I got the notes from the editors in January and since then I’ve kind of been pushing them around like the last bit of dinner I know I should eat but don’t feel in the mood for. I’ve a list of action points and have had no oomph to tackle them. Kind words if you’re reading this would be helpful – or, you know, telling me to pull my socks up and just get on with it would work too.

I am, due to the ongoing ‘situation,’ back up north – and so I have less places to hide and less material to procastinate with. But that does mean I’ve been able to throw this small update together. When I return to Bristol I shall build a WAWAW. Promise.

You’ll have probably noticed that I’m still procastinating on writing a newsletter…