Allan Joyal: Blog

I never want to claim that I'm bi-polar or whatever they are calling it now, but I long ago learned that my writing seems to cycle. I'll have a few good months, and then many poor ones before starting to write again. I don't want to jinx myself, but with just another 1000 words written I'll have my best February writing since i started keeping track of my monthly writing progress. It won't be too high, only at about 1000 words per day, but it will be a huge improvement over the last 4 months of 2016 where I averaged less than 250 words per day over 4 months.

However, never believe that I didn't think about stories or get regular visits from the insane and twisted spirit I pretend is my muse. I have no idea where the spirit goes, but I get regular visits with some strange ideas.

And I also have my next visit to Ishtar starting to come together in my mind. It might not come right away, I really want to finish 2 other Swarm cycle tales I've been working on as they should help introduce characters to the Borneo sector who were there before the end of Crisis. In fact one made a rather prominent appearance in Crisis and finishing that tale will help explain some of the events that shall be befalling Ishtar and the whole Borneo sector.

I've been writing more so I thought I'd post a chapter, but found chapter 44 is perhaps the shortest chapter I've written in years. So I included 45, one of the longer chapters I've written.

Go figure that I'd have a long one after a short one. :P

I know, I know, you want more Living. or at least I hope you do.

I have written more in January than I managed in the last 4 months of 2016. (I'm over 15,000 words for January, September thru December I wrote 11,368 words.)

Unfortunately that's actually a very low writing speed. For me a good month is 70K words or more, but I haven't managed that in a year. Hopefully I'll start writing faster.

I do have chapters almost ready to post, so more of Living will be showing up. I can't promise more than that. i have several non-erotic stories clamouring for attention and those go straight to Amazon when completed/edited.