Hiding Out

I hadn’t realised it had been quite so long since I posted. I’d like to say I’ve been getting away from it all on some Caribbean island.

The truth is I got overwhelmed by life.

In the same week the bank chose to tell me I was overdrawn on my overdraft. Work sent out emails warning they might be considering redundancies to help meet a ridiculously large deficit (I’d tell you how much but the figure changes from between 6, 16, and 60 million depending on who’s  doing the guessing).

• The lights went out all over the house. Fuse box fuse had given up the ghost.
• Bathroom light switch broke. Needs replacing
• The microwave died. It just went from working fine to doing nothing.
• The dryer broke. On investigation it was only the door latch that has gone, if the door doesn’t latch the dryer doesn’t start.
• Teens PC died. It’s still dead, best guess is processor, he’s going to sort that himself.

Now if they had spread themselves out over five weeks instead of three days I would have just kept trucking. As it was while I didn’t quite curl up in a corner I did withdraw from the outside world.

I didn’t stop writing but what I wrote is for personal consumption only, exorcising demons mainly.

I started coming out of the funk last week and looked at my novel. Realised the whole second chapter is an info dump and the main villain just isn’t going to work. So have been  trying to find a new one and create a backstory and a motive that works.

I’ve also decided the only place I can save money to stop the bank writing me letters is if I finally stop smoking so once my  Quit Kit arrives from the NHS this might become a journal recording my attempts to achieve healthy lungs.

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