I never meant to leave you all alone in the dark.
That wasn’t very nice of me.
My bad.
It’s been a minute hasn’t it? Well, if you are still here…thank you. I guess life happened. Can I use that excuse? It’s not original but it is particularly apt for this application.
After nearly ten years of waiting, I became a father. It’s true what they say: Nothing, nothing, can prepare you for how much you will love your child. You can imagine all you want but it is a mathematical certainty that your imagination will fall short. If you’re a parent, you know what I’m talking about.
So I hung up the keyboard for a while. Forced retirement might be a little more accurate but I mean that in the best possible way. For the last year my focus has been on my family. On my wife and our wonderful daughter, and it has been the best year of my life. Soaking up and savouring every moment.
Somehow I blinked and that year went by. It was like a cut take in a film where the main character is in one place and suddenly he is somewhere else, and his hair has grown, a beard has appeared, and his gut has expanded. I’m not saying I grew a gut—my freakishly high rate of metabolism refuses to let that happen (at least for the time being)—but you get the idea.
But I am back! And I have been writing too! My novel is coming along. There were many times when I wondered if I would ever finish it, but now I am entering the final phase, and it is so exciting! I had been suffering a block for a long time with the story. I didn’t know where things should go. There was something else that was also greatly hindering my writing but I will tell you about that in my next post.
Recently, I wrote something for a friend of mine—a fellow writer—for his birthday and, like pouring drain cleaner down the sink, the blockage shrunk and washed away and the flow was restored.
My friend
gave me some simple yet invaluable advice: No matter what, keep writing. If you suffer a block on a story, work on something else, but at all costs keep the juices flowing. This helped me realize that this blog serves as a great means of keeping the juices flowing and I’m kicking myself for neglecting it, for neglecting you.I’ve got a few posts drafted that need a little polish and I look forward to writing new ones and seeing where things take us! Thank you for hanging around, truly I appreciate you.
As always, Thanks for reading.
