RL Crap
So I've been sick for about 3 weeks now ... diverticulitis flare-up, the second one I've had. On the second round of antibiotics and I'm fairly sure those are causing the constant nausea which is getting on my nerves. The worst of it is that I have absolutely no energy. Been coming home from work and going straight to bed, even when I get off at 7pm! For the last week, I've been doing a soft-food diet to try to "rest" my digestive system, and that seems to be really helping, along with the new antibiotics for round 2. It doesn't help that this was my long week at work - had to work Friday, Saturday, Sunday and 3 hours today.
I am heartily sick (pun intended) of being sick, however, and really would like to have the energy to get back to writing.
I've got a new character to bring to life for the Western Fictioneers Wolf Creek series. This is a shared universe where several authors collaborate to produce a Western under the pseudonym "Ford Fargo." I'm quite chuffed to be asked to contribute a character, and have decided on a variation of Chance as he'd have been if raised in a different setting.
Dublin is a mixed race "orphan" (his mother is still alive, but she's a street hooker and he looks down on her for it and always says he's an orphan) living in 1872 New York City. He runs afoul of the wrong policeman one day and is sent to an actual orphanage, where they decide to put him on one of the "Orphan Trains" out West. This was an actual situation back then, and many thousands of city orphans were sent across the country to be adopted.
Dublin has no desire to be adopted - he's fine with his life as it was - and jumps from the train at the first opportunity, which is the (fictional) town of Wolf Creek, Kansas. I've got the bare bones of a story, but I need to flesh out the character and see what actually happens when he first hits town. Originally, he's going to be set on returning to NYC by hook or by crook, but as the stories progress, he'll end up liking his place in the small town because it's going to be easier for him to make a living there.
Now if I can only recuperate enough to stay awake and write the thing...