Dry Docked
With much thought, I have decided to suspend activity on the blog for a while. It will still be here, and may even receive a few random updates every once in a while. But, as you may have already noticed, I just don't have time to keep up with it. There are lots of other things tapping in to my writing abilities right now, some you know about and some you don't know about. The stuff you know about is my work on my prelim exams. Just to be absolutely clear, the prelim exams are the refining fires in the crucible of graduate school. Once I come out on the other side of them, I will be a genuine expert in my field. The trouble is, they are so all-consuming, I barely have time enough to feed, clothe, and dress myself during the day on top of a two hour commute, an entire lab to coordinate and manage, students to teach, classes to take, and a wife and a new puppy at home to spend time with.
As for what you don't know yet, I can't really talk about it. Let's just say a collaborative writing project has been presented to me that is tapping in to all the dark visions that have haunted my mind since I was a child. I finally have an outlet for some of my more twisted creations and ideas, and I'm able to apply them in a way that will, ultimately, be productive. I'm not going to say any more than that, but I'll let you know when I can.
Well, perhaps just a little bit - holding a sample copy of a book in your hand that has your name on the cover is an intoxicating feeling.
And no, I can't tell you what it's about yet. It isn't finished, and it won't be for a long time.
However, it has helped me crystallize some of the things I want to end up doing with a few writing projects that I've been nurturing for a while.
In summation, I just don't have the energy to spend on a blog right now. Perhaps that will change in the future, but for right now, I'm putting this blog on hiatus. In time, it will eventually wake up again. And feel free to keep checking back. You never know when I may get the urge to post something. For now, however, the Fighting Temeraire will be dry docked until I need it to sail out upon the dark waters of the human condition once again.
And when that time comes, we will be accepting passengers.
Until then, this is Raoul the Destroyer, captain of the Fighting Temeraire, signing off.
As for what you don't know yet, I can't really talk about it. Let's just say a collaborative writing project has been presented to me that is tapping in to all the dark visions that have haunted my mind since I was a child. I finally have an outlet for some of my more twisted creations and ideas, and I'm able to apply them in a way that will, ultimately, be productive. I'm not going to say any more than that, but I'll let you know when I can.
Well, perhaps just a little bit - holding a sample copy of a book in your hand that has your name on the cover is an intoxicating feeling.
And no, I can't tell you what it's about yet. It isn't finished, and it won't be for a long time.
However, it has helped me crystallize some of the things I want to end up doing with a few writing projects that I've been nurturing for a while.
In summation, I just don't have the energy to spend on a blog right now. Perhaps that will change in the future, but for right now, I'm putting this blog on hiatus. In time, it will eventually wake up again. And feel free to keep checking back. You never know when I may get the urge to post something. For now, however, the Fighting Temeraire will be dry docked until I need it to sail out upon the dark waters of the human condition once again.
And when that time comes, we will be accepting passengers.
Until then, this is Raoul the Destroyer, captain of the Fighting Temeraire, signing off.
posted by Raoul The Destroyer at 2:39 PM
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