High Degree of Uncertainty · 9:37pm Oct 13th, 2016

I'll talk about what may or may not be to come – and why – after the break.

I'm not enthusiastic about sharing my life publicly, but I am reasonably comfortable with abstractly explaining specifically the parts of it that affect what I can do here.

Firstly, after one of the recent episodes, I finally had what I needed to make a story idea that I had a while ago actually happen. Over the next few days, I had written out most of the story. With it being only a few hundred words shy of completion, I hope to have it posted someday soon-ish. Unfortunately, I don't always have the time to work on these things.

My free time is generally unpredictable at an hour-by-hour scale. In any given week I'm likely to have some time to myself, but even then things have been known to go awry. As such, I haven't been very driven to write longer stories, or more stories in general, and this is partially responsible for the fizzling out of the interview project (though I'd still like to think that it's not dead – I liked doing them). Given this, it's also unlikely that I could even manage to go to a convention no matter how much I wanted to, unless it was pretty much in my back yard.

As disappointing as this may seem – and it is a bit disappointing – I've still been happy, because I do things in real life too. The unfortunate part, and the reason for this blog post, is that, very recently, things have shifted around me, and not for the better. Nothing has happened directly to me and the consequences aren't immediate, but the ball's in my court; I have to decide how to respond.

There are several significant threads of my life involved in how I do this, and the options I have are numerous. I can't say if things will get better or worse in general, but those outcomes and more are possible. I don't have any reason to expect things to actually get worse, but it's still nagging me from the back of my mind that I could mess this up. Even if I do manage to mess things up, at least, nothing in my life should be permanently damaged.

Given the situation, I have been spending most of the time I would have previously considered "free" in gathering information to map out my options. I don't know how long this will all take, or if I'll find the time to finish up Spell Check any time in the immediate soon. Here's hoping that I can play my cards right.