Still working on Sheltovia…
Due to existential angst, the work has been rather sporadic. I am three quarters the way through the final book in the six-part foundation series. Then there’s all the editing, which means re-reading well over a thousand pages again and again, and as if that isn’t hard enough, I realised with a horrible shock just recently, that it’s been over a decade since I worked on the updates of the first book, so I’ll have to update that all over again! Curse you Social Media and the ever-changing culture of modern youth!
I now realise that I probably should have just left it set back in the 1980s when it was originally written, which is quite the trend nowadays, and now I know why… but now I’ve written the newer books in the past few years, including stuff about mobile phones and social media, etc… so I’d have to redo that as well, and it’s all a bit of a problem!
Sounds like a very daunting amount of work, especially when I can barely gather the enthusiasm to force myself to sit down at the laptop most days. Some days I wonder if it's even worth the bother to get out of bed... It’s probably just as well that nobody cares about me or Sheltovia anymore, so I'm not disappointing anyone with my endless procrastination.
I'm guessing that nobody but me will ever read this post... I don’t think anyone is even aware that I have a website... even I didn't care about my website anymore... until suddenly today I get this really weird comment on my Blog page, and it’s either a terrible translation program glitch, or something more sinister is going on… am I potentially being hacked? OMG! First Optus, and now this!!! I’ve been reduced to using inappropriate punctuation!!!!!! When will this nightmare end?!!!
It's not all bad, though... Last night I dreamed I had a pet T-Rex… Oh, she was scary at first, trying to eat me, and all, but then, while she was chasing me she nearly got run over by a massive earth-crushing, tank-like construction vehicle. She was so scared that she collapsed in the street, and I felt sorry for her and went over to comfort her. Then I was brushing her hair with a wire dog-hair brush, and she was really sweet, and I think we started to become good friends…
Due to existential angst, the work has been rather sporadic. I am three quarters the way through the final book in the six-part foundation series. Then there’s all the editing, which means re-reading well over a thousand pages again and again, and as if that isn’t hard enough, I realised with a horrible shock just recently, that it’s been over a decade since I worked on the updates of the first book, so I’ll have to update that all over again! Curse you Social Media and the ever-changing culture of modern youth!
I now realise that I probably should have just left it set back in the 1980s when it was originally written, which is quite the trend nowadays, and now I know why… but now I’ve written the newer books in the past few years, including stuff about mobile phones and social media, etc… so I’d have to redo that as well, and it’s all a bit of a problem!
Sounds like a very daunting amount of work, especially when I can barely gather the enthusiasm to force myself to sit down at the laptop most days. Some days I wonder if it's even worth the bother to get out of bed... It’s probably just as well that nobody cares about me or Sheltovia anymore, so I'm not disappointing anyone with my endless procrastination.
I'm guessing that nobody but me will ever read this post... I don’t think anyone is even aware that I have a website... even I didn't care about my website anymore... until suddenly today I get this really weird comment on my Blog page, and it’s either a terrible translation program glitch, or something more sinister is going on… am I potentially being hacked? OMG! First Optus, and now this!!! I’ve been reduced to using inappropriate punctuation!!!!!! When will this nightmare end?!!!
It's not all bad, though... Last night I dreamed I had a pet T-Rex… Oh, she was scary at first, trying to eat me, and all, but then, while she was chasing me she nearly got run over by a massive earth-crushing, tank-like construction vehicle. She was so scared that she collapsed in the street, and I felt sorry for her and went over to comfort her. Then I was brushing her hair with a wire dog-hair brush, and she was really sweet, and I think we started to become good friends…
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