I just know that I’m going to be murdered for this, but I have recently found myself unable to write to my fullest capabilities. My new boss has effectively murdered both my sleep schedule and my writing time.
As some of you may or may not know, a majority of my writing is done while at work. Previous bosses had no problems with this, as all my job-related duties were done before I ever sat down to write. The problem now, is that my new boss is a workaholic and as such he expects the rest of us to follow his so-called “example” and do more work than is actually necessary, despite the fact that there are two other shifts which we effectively rob of any work that they could do.
This means tons of busy work, and little-to-no “chill time.” He also has a nasty habit of extending my working hours far longer than necessary, causing most of my work-days to be 10 to 11 hours long.
All of the above, combined with a wife who works an opposite shift with seemingly random days off and a 10 month old daughter, tends to leave me with an average of 3 hours of sleep a day.
Needless to say, I’m exhausted pretty much all the time and I feel that my writing has started to suffer because of it.
So for now, I’m going to put Winter’s Mercenary on hiatus… again. What I’ll be doing with this time off, is trying to establish a buffer, as well as complete the two remaining bonus stories that I’ve promised you.
So keep an eye on your RSS feeds, because I will be posting the bonus stories as I complete them, and when I have myself a month-ish buffer, we’ll be back to regular updates. Who knows, if I manage to get into a writing spree I might even get you all more than once a week updates.
But don’t get your hopes up, cause I suck at keeping promises.
- Drew
Wow… 3 hours of sleep a night? That’s pretty wretched. I’ve done that before and honestly… something always snaps.
Hope things work out for you with the job and stuff.
I forget if I mentioned this or not but I watched people try for years to run the kind of story you’re spinning here in a roleplaying game and they always flubbed it up somehow. So this is always an interesting read.
Bummer about the loss of sleep that’s rough. Rest up and do your best. I will check back from time to time.
Awwww. . . .no more sarcastic undead? Ah- oh well. I wish you the best of luck with establishing a buffer, the family, oh yeah- and sleep. You will be missed but up-dates shall be appriciated all the more ^-^
Isn’t the excessive lengthening of work hours illegal or something?
At least James ‘ll have something to do…
I’m in the military, so as long as I have 8 to 12 hours of uninterrupted rest between shifts (rest = time not in my uniform) and I don’t work longer than 16 straight hours a day, it doesn’t much matter.
Also, thank you all for you comments and your support. It means a lot to me.
Suck it up.
In re-regards to the comment you left on my story.
Suck it up. Have a nice day ^_^
This is damn good. Hope things end up working out.
Re: hours. It’s not just the military. It’s called “salary.”
TRY HARDER PUSSY!!! We all know that sleep is for the weak. That part of you died on 4chan. Now you are STRONG…..LIKE HE-MAN!!!! AND WITH YOUR POWERS COMBINED GODZILLA WILL SAVE THE DAY, THANKS TOO…..THE POWERPUFF GIRLS!!!!!
Best regards, you still look gay,
Mad Bones
P.S. Your story sucks. I’m going to procure a blowjob from a $3 crack addict. I’m trying to determine if I should bring jello…..a question for the ages to be sure.
Oh yea, im going to eat your cat when i get home. No force can stop me. Say good byes while you can.
Also…..Hi.
I was wondering how long it would take you to
defile my websitebless us with your presence Mr. B.I look forward to seeing what james has next up his sleeve. Keep it up man. I’ll always follow your story.
Bah, I miss your updates already.