MetaFic

Since I periodically get pinged or PM'd for "is this abandoned?" type of queries, or "are you still alive?" issues . . . I thought I'd post a brief summary of status here.

The limiting factor in my writing -- as for most people -- is my free time. My work environment has done everything possible to remove the concept of free time, such that when coupled to my personal life I have about 1.5 hours per week "to myself" to do as I wish. That makes it hard to do anything at all with Echoes, and that's partly why I started little drabbles like The Contract or the other bunny trails.

Due to that time pressure, actually, I'll be changing jobs in the next month. I am under a signed contract obligation to finish a minimum two year slot in the process of turning an R&D concept into a commercial product, which is up . . . at the end of this month. I've spent the past two months orchestrating my return to R&D and which business unit I'll be returning to, unless I switch to a different company outright.

Until late April, I doubt there will be much external visibility for Echoes. The next chapter is sitting at about 22 kwords, waiting patiently for me to revise and extend. At this point, I'm mostly tempted to just hold off long enough to complete the rest of Part I (six chapters) so it can all launch into beta as a cohesive unit. That would probably delay updates to exactly one year since the last posting, but given it's already been nine months . . . m'eh. I'll figure it out later.

At any rate . . . that's the status. I have a couple of partially drafted scenes for The Contract, and a little bunny trail called M.A.G.I.C., Inc., that's bothering me when I'm stuck in an airport or waiting on a plane for that magic 10,000 ft spot whereupon laptops are allowed.