Happy New Year to all, and sorry for the long eras of radio silence.
The big news with me is that I finished the draft of the second novel yesterday. I've started and aborted this particular novel several times, and yesterday I brought it to a satisfying end. Now I've started a third novel - or rather rebooted a truncated novella that felt incomplete. It's one of the five novels I've had bouncing around in my head.
(I debated whether to start the new novel or edit the previous. But my creative energies are flowing, and I want to get these novels out before they're lost. I've lost novels before, that way.)
Other than that, I've still been in a fog lately. When creative light isn't cutting across the fog, it's just mostly work and chat and games. I've been antisocial and paradoxically missing my Montreal friends. Besides
montrealais and
uncommon_crow, I haven't seen anyone since getting back, and I've been speaking more with absent and faraway friends than local ones.