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The Trip That Was to Be
I did promise for my paid subscribers to give them exclusive content for following me along on this Substack road, sooo.
Here is a link to The Short Version page plus a couple of short stories you can find there. I also feel we’ve settled in to our new home and lifestyle sufficiently enough to begin some podcasting (Right?). As always I’m unsure of the format and the content, but I’m thinking of a few early shows with my two closest friends, both with intriguing past and present lives. Think rockstar/carpenter and an international man of mystery/paralegal living in Asia, and begin with simply reading some of the blogs and adding that as a feature. Look for the play symbol on a number of the blogs. Then I’ll move into the short story content and have a go at reading those for the paid subscribers. After that I can move on to finishing the read of The Sequence, and get into the nuts and bolts of producing an interesting and worth–listening–to podcast. Any tips? I was thinking about discussing the addition of a child to a family and how it has affected my own personal goal setting and what each of us have done to whittle away at wasted time and turn it into productive moments.
There’s lots to unpack just in my own life, with regards to holding down a job, a big move, (Whistler to Squamish) followed by a temporary transatlantic move, all while trying to complete a second novel with very little community support (because of our proximity to family). The intention is to come home from Prague with a polished and submitted version of False Ignition in my hot little hands, having navigated another summer away from friends and family, the english language, foreign customs, architecture…you get the idea. It’s gonna be awesome, but it will have its own unique challenges for us. What it does sound is BUSY! But routine will get us through it all I’m certain of it.
And then the next book…Burn Condition, already in early stages, should be completed with a fever pitch. And then maybe a break before the final novel in the quadrilogy, Emergent. Or is it Integration. Hehe we shall have to wait and see.
These photos jump around a fair bit but you get the idea. We packed up, flew to Ontario, lived on the beach for two weeks, and came home. Oh and before that, my parents came out for a trip to the Sunshine Coast, where the beach shot was taken. Anyway they’re all cute as hell 😎
There Are Men.
Several men in fact, crawling all over the exterior of my house like insects on a hive. Contractors, sanding and staining the slatted wooden portions of its exterior. Lovely men. Contientious but nonetheless, deafening. I would leave but I have too much work piling up and I’m leaving the day after tomorrow for Montreal, the beginning of eight out of nine days away. The plan is to nap while they take a lunch break.
The Homestead.
It was without question a brilliant visit for Declan. We all love Tom Tiddler’s Ground. Declan especially loved the lake, and the beach. I firmly believe he would live in the lake if only he could swim.
My parents built Declan his own little baby-sized Adirondack Chair which fits him like a glove. He loves it!
Back to reality.
Back home we hit the boy with non stop drills to get him up to walking speed ahead of all those neighbourhood high achievers!
We were treated to a ridiculous show of Northern Lights of course
And then back to yard work as always. If you notice a severe lack of writing talk that’s because there hadn’t been any. The book will wait, the state of progress however, shall wait for no one. AGI by 2026? Preposterous!
And at the end of it all, some sim racing, F1 style.
Much, MUCH more to come next week as I leave home for Old Montreal and a hotel room.