Well in all honesty I did not get a whole lot done with my children’s story. I wrote out two separate drafts and then it has just sat languishing in my writing folder for most of the calendar year. But on the upside I managed to write nearly 60,000 words worth of alternate short stories. This I will consider to be a win. I don’t know if I will ever do that much writing again. It was certainly fun, and I feel like I said just about everything I had to say up to that point. Perhaps after some distance I will want to say a little ditty about the great pause, the unending, yet ceaseless pandemic shut down. I have really had to fight between feeling like I can do all the things, and struggling to find the will to do pretty much anything. Very strange. It’s been a very odd year. To the fifteen people who consistently read my series of interconnected short stories, thank you very much. I have no idea whether you liked it or not, or if it said anything to you that you felt was worthwhile, but I really had a great time putting it together. Could have been a completely different group of fifteen people who read them, with no idea it was a continuing thread with interlinked characters, and alternating points of view. I really don’t know. Some of them got a fair few likes, and some passed quietly into the night and died on impact.
That’s what I have to say about that for now. Hope you are all alive, healthy and safe, as we head into deep autumn and then the long period of deep cold. Those short days and longer nights are looming ahead of us on the horizon. Dress warm. Use your masks and wash those dirty god damned hands!
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