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Weakening here about the alternative treatment for LBb. I know it has worked wonders for a lot of people--and it is helping me, but at about the same level as all my being REALLY careful about nutrition, etc. has done.
The hands worsen, and the job market hasn't picked up. So, finding a non-massage job doesn't look great.
Continued re-reading NIGHT CALLS and now KINDRED RITES today. Wow...they're good. Doesn't that sound silly? But when you haven't been able to create for a long time, the realization that you previously could tell a good story, with style, etc. becomes very important. It becomes...not simply proof that you did it before, you can do it again--it's like a small lantern hanging out there somewhere, lit like a small star. Or a lodestone. I can touch it as I pass by, certain that I've been this way before and I can find my way back again.
I've often felt that fantasy/SF/Horror writers are mapmakers, taking readers places they've never been before and then leading them back out again. Maybe this time I get to lead myself there and back again....
The hands worsen, and the job market hasn't picked up. So, finding a non-massage job doesn't look great.
Continued re-reading NIGHT CALLS and now KINDRED RITES today. Wow...they're good. Doesn't that sound silly? But when you haven't been able to create for a long time, the realization that you previously could tell a good story, with style, etc. becomes very important. It becomes...not simply proof that you did it before, you can do it again--it's like a small lantern hanging out there somewhere, lit like a small star. Or a lodestone. I can touch it as I pass by, certain that I've been this way before and I can find my way back again.
I've often felt that fantasy/SF/Horror writers are mapmakers, taking readers places they've never been before and then leading them back out again. Maybe this time I get to lead myself there and back again....