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A brief announcement

Added 2024-02-10 12:23:12 +0000 UTC

My life has changed for the better. In an amazing, sudden, unexpected turnaround that I was only hoping for faintly months from now... it's all come through in a flash.

So...what this means for us is this:

I must spend the rest of 'this month' as I have. Working my 50-70 hour weeks for the next 19 days, because I promised I would do that before this happened, and I can't just leave people hanging who were counting on my being present on the job for that time.

However, starting next month I'm going to slash those hours down dramatically. Or start to, at least. I'll begin by cutting it to 40 hours a week while they onboard two more hires and search for a third. In April though, I'll be cutting my normal job hours down again, from 40 hours, to 30 hours.

And then in May, from 30 hours, to 20 hours.

Why is this important?

Because when I only had to work 20 hours a week, I was able to write 5-10 thousand words a day, and in one instance, wrote 26,000 words in one single day. The 160,000 word 'Who Endures: Strange Lands' was written in ten days in tandem with another novel.

In short, what this means, is that the horrific circumstances and crippling existence I've been trapped in while I struggle to continue to create, is coming to a close. Every day will be easier than the one before it, and I will be able to give you all the effort you truly deserve, and almost 100% of my attention.

I've got to be honest, I've felt horrible about not being as productive as I was while I got through this process of divorce and struggling on an underpaying job. They did give me a raise... of $0.76 cents an hour... and I got one of the highest increases. Honestly, you all deserve far more of my time than that company does. What little faithfulness I have for that, is vanishing with the good supervisor who is himself leaving next month.

I can't wait to give you my all, it's what you deserve, it's what I long to give, and I can only thank you for your patience during these difficult last few months.