amberfocus | Oh, Hello, F-List (Reply)

I have missed several birthdays this week. Well, all summer really. So sorry and happy belated birthdays. I was overwhelmed with getting the rabbitry off the ground during the worst heatwave we've seen in years (rabbit's hate heat). And keeping the chickens alive (we lost one). And harvesting gallons of berries (still am). I've also been dealing with a sort of quasi-depression. I say quasi because it has not been full blown, but it's been underlying. I seem to have finally shaken that.

I've been writing this month. I've been writing a lot which I am sure is what has pulled me out of the quasi-depression. Mostly original fiction. I actually haven't written this much in so short a time since the last time I was manic. I'm not manic now, either, but I am seriously out of the funk and on a writing high. Mostly I've been working on Mer and Changed and Broken Bay and I'm Isa-G and This is the End of the World. I've spewed out chapters in a way I have not done since writing Wolf Moon, but my focus is all over the place, hence multiple novels.

But today, and this is what merits this update, I sat down and wrote 600 words on The Watchmaker's Daughter. And I intend to write more on it tonight after dinner. You may blame (or thank)