This is one of my new 'remote' offices now.
Now that I'm retired from the world of ones and zeros, I'm trying to get out of the house at least twice a week and concentrate on writing and publishing.
This is my first day in this office, a small coffee shop in Lewisville, Texas. I'm on my second Cappuccino and honestly really liking this new life!
I've made another pass on my SciFi story 'Translation' and I think I'm ready to submit it to Analog. Setting up the account and getting the story submitted is a bit of a challenge but once I've done this one I'm hoping it will get easier.
I'm determined to not start/continue anything else until I've actually finished submitting 'Translation'. With any luck I'll finish today and I can look for the next story to work on. I need to finish book four of Arlo and Jake but I'm stalled in the story so I may have to pick up something else and wait for the Muse to strike me again.
Being retired feels very 'odd' to me. No pressure to finish anything because I have to go back to work tomorrow. Plenty of work around the house to fill my afternoons. Plenty of writing and game programming I want to do in the mornings. I've started to finally get my office desk in order. It has decades of 'I'll get to this later' folders everywhere. I guess 'now' is 'later'.
I have a dozen folders and notebooks with story ideas and game sketches. Just collating these is going to take me weeks! It's OK though, it's a lot more fun now. I can go as slow as I want and enjoy each little concept. Some of these notes I haven't read in decades. Time is such a strange concept.
My life as a software developer is already starting to fade, which I find unbelievable. I started writing software in 1980 and I haven't done anything else in 38 years. That is if you ignore the little heart attack incident of 2016 ;-)
I'll post my progress on submitting this story and others.
Be cool, my friends.
