It is indeed already August, and I’m still not sure how that happened.
I’ve been struggling to get the novel finished, not for any particular plot point related issues, but just general-life-stress issues. It’s hard working a full-time job and then having to be creative in the nooks and cracks between.
I actually had somebody who read (and liked!) my first novel tell me that at work. He’s a full-time game designer and said that he’s glad he can be because he couldn’t imagine having to work a different job and then be creative afterwards. Adrian, I feel ya man… it’s rough as hell, and I really wish I didn’t have to. But for now at least, I do. Hopefully not for too much longer, but we’ll see… that hinges pretty heavily on my ability to finish novels, of course, which I am at least three weeks behind in doing!
Gah! But of course stress doesn’t help me write better (quite the opposite), but it’s gotta get done, but that’s putting pressure on myself and I already have tonnes of pressure from sources outside myself… and so on, and so forth. All I can do is my best, and I think that’s what I’m doing.
Gosh, I hope that’s what I’m doing.
Anyway! Going to get back at it. The novel is so close to being done, I just gotta carry it over the finish line, kicking and screaming if that’s what it takes.
Hope everyone out there is staying safe and healthy!