I know it’s been a minute since I posted. I can’t claim being too busy so much as lack of motivation to write. That and coming up with ideas has been a bit like pulling teeth (to use a cliche).

I guess I’m going through a phase, which happens.

Although I’m not exactly sitting idle. I’m still editing, and I’m also judging an audio book contest. I had expected maybe four or five entries, but I instead received over 20!

Considering I’m more of a visual person, listening to books is almost beyond challenging. After even a few hours, I’m mentally exhausted. It takes a lot more concentration to listen to a book than reading it for me. That’s not to say it’s been a slog. Most have been quite entertaining with the different narrators, and some books even had multiple depending on the point of view character. Also included were some audio dramas which were a lot of fun. Not only was there a different narrator for each character, but they included background music and sound effects. Plus most were less than an hour long.

Still, I’m almost done, and I have until the end of February to finish. I’m hoping to have the last entries judged by the end of this weekend.

After that, I do need to finish editing one of my manuscripts, which I hope to have done by the end of June. After that, I really need to start its sequel.

This is the same manuscript Donald Maass expressed interest in at the Realm Makers writers conference last year, so if he does take me on as a client, I need to make sure I have more than one book to sell. I have been bantering about the overall story line, and I’m pretty sure where it’ll end. I just need to put butt in chair and fingers to keyboard and get it down. I do know this particular story won’t be a trilogy, though. I might be able to write other stories based on that world, but only time will tell.

Something else I’m considering is moving this blog to a different server. I have a membership to writing.com, and they have different tiered memberships that include websites, and it’s only $90/year. The only downside is if anyone wants to comment, they, too, must sign up. Free memberships are available, though. We’ll see.