As a few of you may have noticed, production of my fiction and articles stopped a couple of months ago. Since early November, caring for my 91-year-old Mother has consumed most of my available time, energy and emotion. I keep hoping that this will change, it does not show any sign of doing so. In the meantime, I keep noodling around with “Armageddon’s Prisoners,” and a couple of articles on business and religious subjects. The next chapter of “With Our Backs to the Wall” remains about ninety percent done. It may not help that I’m trying to write for two (or more) audiences at once, but when I have the personal resources it’s a good way to deal with writer’s block. If I stuck on one thing, I worked on another.
But writing requires a lot of mental energy. My head is full of characters and situations demanding my attention if they are going to grow. Even the care and feeding of alien invaders requires considerable work. For the moment, my creations lie frozen in amber, awaiting my return to the word processor. I hope to reanimate them in the near future, you will all hear about that when it happens.