It's Been A While

May is almost over, and this is my first blog post of the year. I actually have a really good excuse, which is that I’ve been spending all my writing time on my book. In January I started the… fifth, I think?… revision of my YA, this time turning it into an adult novel, and I was so excited about it and had so many ideas that I couldn’t slow down or take a break to do something as prosaic as a blog post.

This is what the first couple months of the year felt like, as the story streamed out of me:

That energy can only last so long, though. I started to slow down in mid-March, but not to the point that I had anything leftover for blog writing. It wasn’t until the start of May that I really needed to take a break from the book and come up with something less taxing to do for a while.

What I lighted on is actually a series of posts, about chronic fatigue and the principles of rest. Unlike my silly posts about Veronica Mars and old sci-fi movies, I felt that the world could actually benefit from people finding and reading this series, so I started a Substack. I’m not really concerned with whether it goes anywhere, but at least this way people who are interested in my posts can have them delivered to their email.

I will also post the series here, along with my silly stuff. I’m way overdue for both Veronica Mars Season 2 and King Kong, and now that we’ve got our movie theater set up at home (complete with a theater-style popcorn machine) I really don’t have an excuse to keep procrastinating.