So Why Aren't I Writing????

Well I thought it was high time that I told you guys what is going on and why I've not been able to reliably put out story episodes...

It's a grisly tale but one with a happy ending so stay tuned...

So last October I was doing well putting out episodes every three days and writing a new book every month. Then I started getting kind of sick. Cut a long story short, it turned out I had a blockage in my large intestine as big as an apple.

Cancer.

I needed emergency surgery right away and suddenly life didn't look too promising.

I had the surgery to save my life and remove the blockage but the cancer was still there lurking. Worse, it had crept onto my liver. The prognosis was pretty bleak and it didn't look like I had a lot of time left.

I started chemotherapy and started to undergo a series of punishing cycles riddled with weariness and awful side-effects. The surgery recovery plus the chemo smackdowns have been why I haven't been writing reliably.

Writing's one of those things you need to keep the momentum going on so it's been hard only have odd days of feeling well to get back into things. Having said that I've been determined to, hence the sporadic releases and the publishing of my plays (which have been waiting to be published for years).

So things were looking very bleak and it didn't look like I had that long.

That is until the other day.

(Grins)

I had a CT scan that indicated that my body was responding exceptionally well to the chemo. The cancer in my bowel had been cut away already but the spots on my liver were disappearing remarkably well! My prognosis went from a solemn shake of the head to a rather more pleasant chat about likely long term survival. It's now looking like I've kicked this thing's ass and now just need to do the final clean-up.

So I'm having one last batch of chemo then in a few weeks I'm going into surgery to have the dark matter cut out of my liver. After that It'll be a case of monitoring me to check things aren't coming back but I should be pretty much cured!

(Yippee!)

Thank God for that. Literally.

Now as far as you guys are concerned, there will continue to be some disruption for a while longer. I'll produce episodes when I can but there may be weeks here and there where I just can't manage it. Don't despair though, I've kicked its ass already. Once I'm done ripping the last dregs out of me I'm going to get back to writing with all my usual verve.