Sulfur: home stretch.

Okay, so I haven't posted recently. But I have excuses. I have a whole stack of excuses including the following: school, work, health-related outages, etc. However, those are just excuses, part of the usual barrage of stressors life throws at you. The real reason I haven't posted in so long? I'm almost done with Sulfur. I don't mean that I'm almost to the next stage of the editing process; I mean I'm almost done with the editing process. I'm getting ready to publish, and during this phase everything in my life takes a deep inhale with anticipation.

I've reread Sulfur in it's entirety (It's better than Farro in my opinion - phew!) and now I need only wait for that husband of mine to read through the seven or so chapters he has left. Then we'll both have called in done. I get it formatted, put together, and send it off.

Somehow, I kept postponing posting here because I kept hoping that "tomorrow will be the day", but I can't put you all off forever. Soon, I tell you now, soon. And then you won't have to rely on my episodic updates.

I can't wait; I want to move on to Beauty and the Beast and Ancient Egypt.

(For reading, here's Chapter 14 of Sulfur, featuring the return of Bomani.)

My ass, on the line

What an October it’s been. Many of you might have heard by now that I’ve been out with some sort of tailbone issue. Well, what I didn’t mention in the brief blurb was that I ended up missing a solid week of work and spent a majority of that time lying face down on some doctor’s table with hands probing my backside. Need I alert you how uncomfortably close he came to my butt?

In the end, what started as a two-week long pain marathon, finished with a climatic bang. I was caught between a rock and hard place – the inability to move, sit, or walk and my ever-present need for money. No work = no green, something not everyone can live without.

How did I remedy this situation? With another doctor’s visit. With five shots of Lidocain to the injured area and a whole lot of love (and by love, I mean scalpels and gaze and iodine). Sometime in the near future I’m going to need to go back in for surgery.

All of this drama has ripped a good three weeks of my life away, stranding me face down in a sea of pillows. But don’t worry, I recovered just in time for… school. It’s a big juggling act, my life right now, and sometimes I have to marvel at my own determination to publish a book between it all. But I will, and soon.

Sulfur might be taking me a month longer than expected, but I’m finally able to work again and am very close to sending it on its merry way. I can’t wait to finish this project. It’s almost as though life, seeing me toeing the finishing line, has decided to throw every obstacle it could between me and the tape at the end of the track.

But I’m almost there.
Almost there.

Chugga, chugga.
Chugga, chugga.

Keep writing,
Arreana

P.S. Chapter 12 was posted today