A Spec in Time Series

The year of the dragon is gone. It was my year, and boy did things fly high and fast. Power was brought back into my life. Drastic moves were made. My whole life changed yet again. Now we go into the year of the snake, it is time to come home to the ground to rest. To bask in the sun and think about all that has happened. I started over, yet again. I plan on sliding through this next year with the confidence gained in the last. I have always related and judged what my life will flow like using the Chinese astrology, the western stars have never had the same place of understanding in my soul.

My unpacking and setting up is going well. I’m finally able to see the floor and my box allergy is calming down. I’m relaxing. I’ve had time to sit in my comfy chair and write. Damn, it feels so good to have my keyboard in my lap again. I found my missing computer glasses – I can see. Also found a Christmas present for a friend, a little late but still great. I’m safe, happy, and writing. I know that my self-imposed timetable for finishing this chapter of Specs life is all off. I know that there is no way to even catch up to it. A new timetable must be the rule of the day. I also know that this book is laid out and all of the important parts are being worked on. The good news is that my word goal is close to halfway there, although, I really think with this one it is only one-third of what the end result will be for this book.

This month has been spent on one particular part of the story, pivotal yet painful. Painstaking to write, there is a lot packed into it. Both this section and myself have been through a lot of evolution these last two weeks. I feel like all I’m doing is replacing one word for another and then reorganizing a sentence, then going back and checking the dialect of it. Dialects are difficult to remember, I’m constantly looking at my cheat sheets. I suppose everyone who writes keeps one. It is a lot like moving and learning a new place and new rules. Putting things in order so you know where they are when you need them.

This book also starts the DNA twist of the story. There is a subdivision being created, a second storyline, which feeds out of the first and they weave in and out of the whole. In my mind, it is a strand of DNA. I’m having fun bringing it all together, I hope you will have fun when you read it. I’m also investigating getting someone to tape a reading of it for an audible release of the series. I have no idea how that works but I’m willing to learn. I hate that people don’t read anymore, but what am I to do about that? Calmly, in my chair, I write. This is what I do.

Happy New Year. Don’t be afraid of the snakes. They are mostly valuable members of our planetary system, hunting out and killing the rats.

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