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Jessica Steiner ([personal profile] jessicasteiner) wrote2015-11-06 06:03 pm

Reboot!

Greetings. It's been a rough two years, but I'm back.

For the past two years, my work schedule has gone from very busy, to very very insanely busy, and basically stayed there. I've dealt with a coworker who flamed out and dumped their entire caseload on me, and also a three month period of absolutely no income while the government body who writes my paycheque "upgraded" their system. During that entire time, I carried a caseload of over 100 clients and worked every one of them as hard as I could.

It didn't leave much time or brainpower left over for writing, and even less time for blogging about writing.

However, I now see the light at the end of the tunnel as far as my work load at the day job. In addition to that, I've had some important boosts to my writing brain, and I believe I'm firmly back in the saddle now, with enough brainpower left over on the side to attend to my social media as well.

In September, I attended the Out of Excuses Retreat. When I got back from that utterly life-changing experience, I went to the Surrey International Writer's Conference, and pitched OtherWhere to an agent, who asked for a full manuscript.

I've decided not to do NaNoWriMo this year, so that I can concentrate on getting my manuscript up to par and getting it out to the agent.

In the meantime, I am committing to updating this blog regularly again. I intend to update on a rotating schedule, every Friday, and it'll probably be more writing and life updates, and writing exercises, rather than reviews. Though I will probably do the odd review, as well.

So thanks for being patient! I hope you enjoy reading what I have to say.
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[personal profile] the_rck 2015-11-07 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
Great to see you here! I'm glad the writing is coming back. I know that losing that is really hard, especially when it feels like other things are piling on.
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[personal profile] clare_dragonfly 2015-11-08 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
Hi! Good to hear from you! sooooo jealous that you went to the Out of Excuses retreat! :D
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[personal profile] clare_dragonfly 2015-11-08 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
That might be the greatest thing ever.