Where Have I Been

It's been a weird time around here lately.

For those of you playing along at home, you'll be well aware of my lack of productivity of late so I'll not rehash over sad ground here, but things became a lot more difficult a little over a week ago. My left eye decided now would be a good time to develop a sty - but not just any old ordinary sty, this was a super sty that swelled up nicely and infected the actual eye as well as the the eyelid. The result was not very good vision especially when looking at computer monitors. I ended up not going to work (as I work in IT and looking at monitors tends to be a requirement) and not being able to do much at home. I've slept a fair bit over the last week or so.

I'm only now catching up on emails, Google Reader (170 unread!), and my editing duties for the anthology.

In the end, with cricket finals very much at the forefront of my brain and not being able to write, has allowed me to assess exactly where I'm at with my writing. I've not done a great deal for the past few months and I've always had a readily available excuse for that lack of productivity (anthology, illness, Christmas, work). In the cold light of day, not being able to write hasn't been a painful thing and I can't say I've overly missed it.

I'm going to back away for a time. I'll finish up the anthology, and I'll continue to make the occasional comment on other people's blogs so I'm not disappearing all together. If a story sells or one of the few I'm waiting on reaching publication happens, then I'll post comment here, but there won't be a huge amount of traffic happening on Musings over the immediate future (oh, reviews will still be linked to as and when I get to them). In the background I'll be playing with Inner Voice and, if the inspiration strikes, the occasional new piece, but I'm not holding my breath on that. I'm still intending on taking November off to write the second instalment in the Nathan Steele series so I'm obviously not giving it away completely. No doubt postings will pickup around here as I move into submitting IV to agents and hopefully travelling further down that road to a book deal.

Sorry, Mercedes, I'll have to take a rain check on that challenge. Once cricket season is done I may look at doing you a picture anyway ;c)

And for the one or two of you still interested, the minor round is now done for my cricket team. We finished second which gets us a home semi-final to be played over both days of this coming weekend (I will be a very tired and sore boy come Monday). On a personal note I'd like to thank the 21 (or so) players who have played for me this year. I can only choose 11 guys to take the field come Saturday and some of you who will miss out will be extremely unlucky, but your efforts and your attitude has been exemplary this year, and as captain of the B Grade, I truly appreciate what you've done in helping the team make the finals. For everyone else out there, please keep something crossed this coming weekend or send up a prayer, make an offering, or a sacrifice on our behalf. Thank you in advance ;c)

Well, that's pretty much it from me. I'll post the results of finals over the next week or two and update you on the progress of the antho but things will get somewhat quieter around here for now. For those of you who continue to follow this blog, thank you, for those of you who don't, thank you for the time you stayed. I wish all of you the very best in your writing endeavours.

This is not the end...only a pause in proceedings. I hope to see you on the other side of it.

BT