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Penalt


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  • 12 weeks
    I got ART!

    I know I haven't done a blog in awhile, but being a full-time single parent working a full-time job, and a part-time writer tends to really chew into the hours I have in a week. That said, I just had to carve out a little time to show off the remarkable gift I was given from Lady Lightning Strike by way of the amazingly talented artist Pridark.

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  • 25 weeks
    Commissions!

    Yeah, been awhile since I've written any sort of blog post, but I do have some good news. I'm re-opening to commissions! My patrons on Patreon will get priority for their commissions first, but it doesn't mean that everyone else can't ask for some stories either. Here are my commission conditions:

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  • 33 weeks
    So... a small heads up about the upcoming month...

    I'm about to start writing the final chapter or two of the Brightly Lit saga, after which time I'm actually going to be going on vacation for a week. As in actual time off from my job and all other responsibilities. Which means no Twilight Learned this month, and perhaps not next month either as I reassess things in the wake of the end of writing roughly 350,000 words on one pair of stories set

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  • 53 weeks
    So... a bit of a heads up

    Over the past few years I've engaged in a practice of letting my patrons on Patreon decide what story I should update following the Brightly Lit update in the month, and I've noticed a bit of a pattern. Mainly that anytime "How Twilight Learned" comes up in the voting it easily wins. So recently I asked my patrons if they would like me to just concentrate on Brightly Lit and HTL until one of

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  • 79 weeks
    State of the Pen

    It's been 10 days since my brother died and 6 since we laid him to rest at the foot of a willow tree near a shady stream. I find myself both functional and numb. I can act, react, and do things, but anything beyond the basics is like trying to push fog with your hands. Something happens but not much. I find myself staring at a computer screen and feeling... nothing.

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Aug
31st
2018

Rebuilding · 9:43pm Aug 31st, 2018

It's been just over 4 weeks since my life underwent a sea change. I won't bore you all with repeating the details but I was literally down to just about nothing.

Then the Magic of Friendship happened.

People texted me, night and day, keeping me moving forward, keeping me from falling into despair. People sent me the locations of local soup kitchens so I stayed fed, they told me where to go for clothing and where I could find shelter. Buoyed up by the support of the friends I made here and elsewhere online, I picked myself up and shrugging off the "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" drove myself into my new life. I have taken up arms against my sea of troubles with battle well and truly engaged now.

I am well into rebuilding my life, and I could not have done it without all of you.

My Patreon remains shuttered... for now. It will reopen October 1. I am again writing, but my speed is nothing what it was. I hope to change so I can give my Patrons value for their money. Speaking of money, if you do want to send me a few bucks to help out with things you can. PM me and I'll send you the information you'll need.



Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.

Invictus

Comments ( 7 )

Best of luck with rebuilding and thriving!

i'm glad things are looking up. Hope it keeps going forward.

The fact that you have managed to bounce back from this is a testament of your will power. May the Magic of Friendship that started you on your way to recuperation, and your willingness to rebuild, continue to move you forward.

Thanks for the update. This arc of your personal story needs its own resolution.

It's very good to hear things are looking more secure for you. I hope you will reattain your stride in short order.

I'm glad to hear you are slowly building back up again. I cannot imagine what you are going through, but I wish you all the best in finding a new home.

I'm very glad to hear that things are getting better for you again. I don't live in Canada, so I have no idea where to find anything, and I don't have a Parteon account, I'm afraid. I do, however, have a saying that's helped me through some rough times: Hope is never truly gone so long as you remember what hope is.
Don't give up, Penalt, we're all rooting for you.

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