Good evening, folks. I wrote a little over 1100 words yesterday in two sitings and today I’ve written 1173 words. All on Penal Earth book two, and I’m about 7000 thousand words in and feel like I’ve found the right thread with it.

It’s been difficult trying to figure out how to get this one off the ground as I need to hook the reader and still tell the story that I want to tell. I need to keep it moving from the first book while introducing more of the world to the reader and building for other plot lines that’ll be needed for later books, but in this arc and in other arcs that I can maybe explore one day. This is quite a rich world so I think I can do a lot with it once this story is wrapped up.

I’ve been in quite a rut for a while, and it feels good the last couple of days getting these words down and I’ve been working a little on another story, just noting down key plot points that I’ll need to write for it. It’s a story I’ve had in mind for a lot of years and I think I can see how to put it together now.

I wish I could break this cycle I live in. Short periods of time where I’m smashing the work out. Like I can do everything I want to be able to do, then long periods of time where getting these stories done feels like I’m trying to stand upright against an avalanche.

I was talking to my ex-girlfriend when we were together how I feel like I’m not running on full capability. My brain sort of thing. If I could unlock the ability to tap into how I’ve been feeling the last couple of days, damn. I’d get so much done. I just need to find the way to access that side of me.

Hell, maybe I just need more sleep. I don’t know.