Updateroo, Cobber

Well, it's been a whole month since a last blog post, and I may as well post this to reassure all 10 people that care, I am not dead. The long delay is for a plethora of reasons, one of which is purely Olympic related; in the fever of the Olympics I have been a) Playing Football Manager to win it with Britain, b) Playing the Olympic Video Game, c) Playing Champion Jockey: G1 Jockey and Gallop Racer and d) Watching the Olympics and the highlights at night of the things I couldn't see.

The other, more notable reason is lack of spark; an idea of where to take the stories from where they are. I do have, of course, an overlying idea of what to do and where I want to go, but its the detail in between. There have been nights where I decide to write at 11PM, and before I know it I've been distracted by something and suddenly it's 4AM and I need to be getting sleep. But, rest assured, things are getting done. With all this free time I don't feel pressured into writing on only weekends; I'm free to do a large amount of writing on any day, basically whenever I concoct an idea, which unfortunately hasn't happened a lot lately. Fortunately there was a breakthrough yesterday and "The End of This" is nearly good to go.

To help me get to writing more I have decided to participate in this whole "National Pony Writing Month" to a limited extent. That extent being I have created a separate blank story with the working title "Untitled" and if I get a particularly good idea I could pop that open, write stuff down and see what happens. I will ensure that it does not take up writing time allocated to the two stories that people actually read, and I'm only "participating" because I have a month before I'm subjected to two years of college and the hunt for a p/t job seems futile.

I also realise that followers of "The End of This" are liable to have forgotten about it. I say this because 1) It isn't the most popular thing ever and 2) the last chapter's first comment was about forgetting about the story, and the time gap between Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 is slightly greater than the one between 1 and 2.

Thank You for bearing with me and my procrastinating arse, it is much appreciated.