Howdy folks! How are we all doing this morning?

Last month fizzled out quite significantly. I thought I was on a decent roll but it got to about the 24/25th of the month and I lost a bit of momentum. This coincided with a slight mental health dip, and I think both of these came from a touch of fatigue.

That dip in both writing and mental health has rolled over into the start of this month but I’ve come out the other side of it now and up u til yesterday I was a touch ahead of my writing goal or 20 hours for the month (in March I was a little over 30 hours). I had planned to knock out a solid few hours yesterday but woke up with a massive pollen attack, after an excessively poor nights sleep. After almost an hour trying to write, I gave up and went out to the garden and did a couple of spring jobs. I’m somewhat crashed out after that.

A lot of this running out of steam does result from a lack of sleep. A frustrating element of my life that even though I’ve got a good idea on how to change, I can’t break my mental block on it to get my arse into bed earlier. I think it might lead in part to getting overtired and then struggling to sleep, like the last two nights.

On the positive side of things though, War Child is progressing. I’ve tidied up a lot of the mess I’d made but I’m back to the matter of how do I end this first part of the story? It’s frustrating that both War Child and Penal Earth 2 I’m struggling with the endings of both. Penal Earth 2 I know how to end it (hope to Yoda that I’ve finally nailed it) but it’s been hard and I’m a touch anxious to get back on it once this draft of War Child is done. With War Child, I’m just not sure how to end it. There’s an overall plot point that I thought about closing book one off on but I’m not sure the characters are ready for it. I dunno.

I might just need to pull the trigger and put it in and see how it works.