It's true! My day is filled with doing various HTH work that I find it a struggle to get a chance to write. It also hasn't helped that I've been sick or on medication off and on since earlier in the year, it's been frustrating.

To add to matters, I have company coming out for an extended visit, and that's going to make writing even harder. Not impossible, just harder. Especially because I write the best when I'm alone and it's quiet -- probably fallout from growing up with an alcoholic with sensitive ears. It doesn't always have to be quiet, but I prefer to be alone. It's too hard to write with people around me. I'm either distracted or self conscious. Often both.

That's not to say I haven't written anything. I have. I've written a lot more than last year which was mainly spent editing stories. That really wore me out editing for a whole year. Polishing and refining and fretting and rewriting for a whole year. It really got to me. Like many creative peoples I get a bit self conscious of my work. And that just made it worse. I write a lot that I never post, or I start something, but don't like where it goes, and it comes to a halt. I've also written tons of journals that I never post.

Generally, it's hard for me to decide what to post here, since I don't like posting anything political or religious (I tend to save that for my stories), or unfinished works. And although my intention was, in posting Aello, that I would be able to keep posting the story, instead of having long stretches of nothing in between -- that did not turn out to be the case. I have written more chapters, and I do intend to finish it, because I'm still so in love with the story. I have an end that I want to get to dammit!
It's one of those stories that is in my head and won't stop until I get it all out in words. The problem is that I'm getting other stories clamoring for attention and it's chaos up in there.

Regarding the Bestiary stories: I'm still not giving up on it, but I almost want to flip through and write some random ones instead of sticking to alphabetizing. I didn't want to do that initially because it's harder to keep track of everything that way -- and I hate writing in books. It feels wrong. I had to do it once for a Psych class and I'm still traumatized. I look through it and shudder.

I'll figure something out. I'd really like to get some stories posted before the year is out. That would really feel like an accomplishment considering how little I've been able to do this year.

But this is the first year HTH Studios has been an actual full fledged business -- so it's to be expected that things are a bit hectic right now. I'm hopeful that as the years progress, I'll be able to find the balance between studio work, and my own personal pursuits.

Thanks for reading. I really am sorry things have been so quiet.

TTFN
Tyvara