nostalgebraist:

FYI: I probably won’t post any new chapters of Almost Nowhere for the next few months.

I’ve become unexpectedly busy with other stuff in a time-sensitive (but time-limited) way, and I won’t be able to make room for writing for a few months.

This means I almost certainly won’t hit my goal of finishing the book in 2022. Once the current hiatus is over, I’ll come up with a new estimate/target date, which should be sometime in 2023.

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On a more positive note, I’m very happy with the progress I’ve made in 2022 so far, both in quantity (I covered a lot of ground in the plot) and quality (I like what I wrote).

I’m also thankful that this is happening at a relatively natural breaking point in the story, like the end of a TV serial’s penultimate season.

If you start reading right now, you might reach the end and think “aw man, I want to know what happens next!”, but you won’t think “wait, it just stops … here?!”

The thing I was unexpectedly-busy-with has now resolved!

And now I can say what it was: I was looking for a new job. I didn’t want to say that on the blog at the time, because my current employer didn’t know I was job searching.

I signed a job offer a few weeks ago, and will be starting my new job at the beginning of November.

With that resolved, I’ve started to get my head back into the Almost Nowhere zone. Going back over my notes, daydreaming about the story, all that good stuff.

I don’t want to commit to any specific schedule until I start the new job. But the project is no longer “officially on hiatus.”