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.
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