Hit a wall a while back and couldn’t concentrate on anything.  It’s largely due to the steady increase in summer volume at work, making for longer hours, culminating in last week that was a horror show.

The hours aren’t likely to calm down much for a while, but I think I’m at least adjusted to it.  After a long drought of not even wanting to open a document, I cracked open Beauty of the Wood today, cleaned up a few things I’d thought about during the hiatus ( even when I’m not writing, I’m generally thinking about the stories ) and moved forward.

This is a Nude Day story, and I’m hoping to finish it in time for the contest now.  Bit of a tight deadline, but I’m going to try.

If nothing else, I have a solid start on an Earth Day and Nude Day story in the Magic of the Wood series for next year :p  Hope to make it only the Earth Day one, though.

That’s going to be priority, due to the deadline, but the way I work means that I’ll likely do some writing on Lowborn and SOTM as well.

Those who have been with me for a while know that I hit these down points.  There’s not a lot I can do about them other than put everything aside and vegetate for a while.  The more I try to fight them, the worse they are and the longer they last, because not being able to write frustrates me, which only drops my motivation even lower.

I’m back to writing now, and we’ll see what’s in store as I move forward.  I’m going to try much harder to keep the updates going here on the website as well.  That’s even more unforgiveable than my spotty production rate.  I could at least let you know that I’m in a down point and unable to write ( anything worth reading, anyway )