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Hmm… for some reason my last couple of posts haven’t shown up. It looks too much like I’ve been neglecting this again. Let’s see if they show up after I post this one…

Just to add… there we are. All better. Seems like there were some changes to my ISP server and I had to adjust some of the settings in Blogger. Fair enough. All go again. Obviously I should post more…

Anyone who knows me well - don’t read the stuff below and think I’m losing it here

It’s okay, really. Can get a bit dejected at times, I admit, but I’m really quite fine. I cope with being solo better than a lot of people, I think. After all, being a writer is about spending a whole lot of time by yourself in front of a computer/typewriter/pad and paper, so I know what it’s all about.

There’s more I’d like to be doing, sure, but it’s not too bad

I’ve got to get out of Canberra… fuck this place.

And it’s not even the place. It seems like everything that can go wrong here will. Sallie’s still away. Four or five different things in the house have broken down and there’s no money to repair them. Bills are hard to pay. Hate the damn weather here. I know I’m doing less socially than I’d like to be. Jobs not a disaster but it’s a drag.

But I’m still healthy, I’m not destitute or anything and I suppose things could be a lot worse Hard to see that sometimes though…

It’s not all bad though. I figure it’s a great time to write as much as possible. I’m doing quite a bit, but never as much as I’d like (or is that just perfectionism talking?) Spent the last week doing a script for Marvel Epic submission that’s basically finished, but it just needs some tightening, a better ending and an outline of the next five issues

Novels going somewhere I think - written a reasonable amount recently, but seem to have put it down to work on the script. I’d love to be able to do it all at once, but working a damn day job makes that about impossible. Still getting it done though.

Everything has it’s ups and downs - there’s some jobs to be applied for and some new strategies on that front. Trying to stay positive