Thanks and Stuff

First of all, thank you for this. My reserves were running pretty low.

I’ve had a lot of on my plate lately, not all of it good. I have an inherent ability to make work for myself. It’s sad. The latest pile started as a help desk ticket. I kid you not. All I did was request that something be fixed and that one small, helpful act landed a pile of work in my lap that I probably won’t dig out of for a month.

Now that isn’t a bad thing. Gods and goddesses willing, the majority of the badness has passed. I’m looking forward to accomplishing some positive things in the coming months. I can’t really talk about them now, but you should start seeing the results in the next few weeks. I’ve roped a couple of other good folks into lending a hand. I hope that what we do will inspire some people. I’d love for our energy to produce a return that makes others smile. That’s always a wonderful thing.

So basically, that ‘Monday working on BuffyWorld’ thing has been put on hold for now. I have another heap of busy work that needs to be done before we can roll this project out.

And all of that leads me to some bad news about Bloodletting. It’s been coming anyway. All of these other smaller things and more have forced the issue. I’m going to have to put the story on hold too. Now that’s just from a publishing perspective. I have one more chapter to release that still needs a little work. I should be able to get that out by a week from tomorrow, but meeting my regular production goal is laughable now. I’ve put too much into other things recently and that’s cause me to get behind schedule.

The reality of the piece is that it’s just too broken and too incomplete from here forward for me to adhere to a regular schedule. I need to dig in and finish it before I begin to publish again. I just don’t want to hang myself on it. The story has already bitten me once. That makes me leery. I hate making projections because things never turn out quite the way I want them to, but if I had to guess, I’d say mid to late February for completion.

So, if you were really into it, you have my apologies. I am willing to take on a few additional pre-readers, if you just don’t want to wait. What that entails is simply reading as the story is completed and weighing in. I listen to feedback and if there’s something that is perceived as a problem and I agree, I will do my utmost to fix it. If I disagree, I’m inclined to explain and listen to the counterargument. Communication is a wonderful thing.

I’m also grateful for any minor corrections that people offer, but that isn’t a necessary part of the job. What I want most is a sounding board.

Contact me via PM if you’re interested.

Here’s to another, better year.

Fiction Recap for December 2011

Bloodletting (the Final Cut) (2009/2011-12)
Chapters Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen and Sixteen.
Buffy/ Willow, FRAO, 26,478 words.

Empty Spaces (2011-2012)
A Single Step (2011)
Buffy, FRT, 800 words.

27,278 Total.

Looking at this is making my brain hurt. What a year.