Music for the Day

First off, I apologize to anyone concerned about the last journal. It’s not like me to share so much of my vulnerability. After all, my burdens are my own.

I will admit that I’ve been feeling stressed out as of late. Part of it is because of the upcoming move to Arkansas. Soon, I’ll be going to a completely different environment, one that I’ll likely struggle in for a couple of years or so. And, as someone who lived in comfort for years, it seemed intimidating.

Another part of my stress is on the writing aspect. No, I’m not feeling writer’s block. Quite the opposite. I have so many ideas I want to go through; the struggle is picking one and writing down notes to expand it into a proper story. Hopefully, within the coming months, I’ll thin out some of those ideas.

One of these ideas is a prequel to Xenofox. It has been on my mind for a few years now, even though it’s no more a prologue to the story, something that I feel that Xenofox is just one chapter of. I often wonder if I should do a proper novel on Xenofox or just leave it with this and a few short stories within that ruined world. It’s something that I find worth thinking about, though I seek to distinguish it from the Xeno games, the inspiration.

Another idea is something that I came up with while waking up one morning, something that I hinted at Twatter about. Did I just call it Twatter? Regardless, I find it worth going forward. It’s a speculative science-fiction story where a self-sustained ship with some of the brightest on earth left for 100-200 years. The mission was to see what these people would do with all desires for needs fulfilled with a ship that granted them. And when it came back, the group that came inside found that all was not well.

Those are just a couple of ideas burning in my head for a while now. Some are shorter, others are much longer. But regardless, I wish to write down as much as I can.

In the end, my stresses are my own, and I don’t wish to add them to you all. I hope that things will go better once the final home is built. Again, I wish you all the best.