Happy November 1st, folks! :P Hope your Halloween was sufficiently spooky and spectacularly sexy. Mine featured plenty of treats, but fewer tricks than I'd hoped. Fingers crossed for next year.
I wanted to take this opportunity to confirm that rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated. Or at least somewhat exaggerated. Admittedly, I haven't exactly been in prime form lately. A heap of stress has been piling on top of my shoulders since the end of summer, and the effects of that have been very apparent during the past several weeks. My circadian rhythm is all over the map, leaving me sleep-deprived and almost constantly groggy. Until very recently, writing for work was the hardest it's ever been and writing for pleasure was absolutely out of the question.
At the risk of jinxing it, things have picked up a bit during the last week or so. I haven't made a ton of progress normalizing my sleep schedule, but I'm more optimistic about achieving that goal now that the strength of the anxiety has begun to weaken. I even managed to add a couple thousand new words to a pair of stories I hadn't touched since early September. If all goes well (knock on wood), I hope to finish at least a couple new works before the end of the year.
Looking ahead to 2018, the matter of my financial situation still looms on the horizon like a black mass of growling storm clouds. I know it's pretty much the human condition at this point, but holy hell am I sick of barely having enough money to survive. As I sit here and complain with a roof over my head and food in my stomach, I do understand I'm still better off than many. Nevertheless, that doesn't change the fact that I'm presently very far away from where I wanted to be at this stage in my life—a life I only get one chance to live. Something has to change. Thinking about how much time I've already wasted, I am determined to make 2018 the year in which that change occurs.
I wonder... If I were to get my side hustle on, could my fondness for penning sleaze provide the means for some extra income? That question is mostly rhetorical, though I wouldn't be at all offended if someone wanted to answer it. Taking commissions is a possibility, provided my health continues to improve to a point where timely turnarounds are possible. And while merely mentioning Patreon runs the risk of ruffling feathers—or fur, if you prefer—the thought of giving that site a shot is looking more and more attractive with every success story I encounter. But please rest easy knowing paywalling is NOT an option I'll consider. If it ever came to that, I'd take it as a sign that I needed to walk away from creative writing altogether.
In any case, there's still time to weigh the various options and figure out the best way to proceed. For now, I'm just focusing on making it through the last two months of this crazy year while gaining as few additional gray hairs as I can.
A very big thanks to all my watchers for sticking with me. More new stuff is on the way! I'll do my very best to make it worth the wait.
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