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Apologies and Explanations for the Late Newsletter

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In my previous blog post, I had said the newsletter, “Night Creatures’ Call” would be coming out in another week. It's now been over a week in which I apologise for. 


My explanations for the delay have been writer’s burnout and others. Much of those others are due to myself trying to cram several writing projects into a limited amount of time. That time is limited by not only my day job of four days a week, but by the two-hour public transit commute each way every day. Right now, I have three projects going on: my upcoming short story collection, "Bad Apps"; my single short story book, "The Trespassers"; and of course, the newsletter. 

For "Bad Apps", I'm currently working on two short stories both of which are in the revision process. For the single short story book, I'm in the process of adding an author's bio so I can send the manuscript out for formatting. For the newsletter, I had recently been working on the Book-In-Progress write-up about the two above “Bad Apps” short stories and giving a behind-the-scenes look at them. 

Writing the behind-the-scenes is what had mostly been holding the newsletter back from releasing it when I had intended. I talk about in that section how the two stories have been the most challenging to revise out of all the stories I've worked on for the collection so far. What's so ironic about that is that, because the two stories have been extra difficult to revise, writing about that difficulty has been complicated within itself! 

I've got the Book-In-Progress section of the newsletter done. I just have to add some of the other usual features that I put in each issue. I'll also add a feature that talks about the special discount on "The Trespassers" that I'm giving to subscribers only. In this case, "subscribers" are the people who have already been subscribed to "Night Creatures' Call", and anyone who subscribes within the next month in which by then the single short story book will have released. So, if you're not a subscriber and you want a super discount on "The Trespassers" when it releases, sign up for my free newsletter now! I'll be releasing the upcoming issue this Friday or Saturday. 


Have you ever had such a difficult time with a project or task, writing or otherwise, that you almost couldn't even explain it in writing or orally?

Until next time . . .


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