Well, it’s taken me a lot time to think this through.  And in fact being sick and unable to write the posts for a few weeks helped to solidify my decision.

I’m going to put this blog on hold for a while.  Perhaps until I can get book one published.  The last 9 months have been incredible: I’ve learnt how to write quickly and efficiently, I’ve learnt the discipline of having a defined time target in which to work, I’ve fleshed out a bunch of background stories and therefore made my particular important characters more fleshy.. which is always good, and as a consequence of this blog storyline I’ve expanded upon a section of planning for book three in a direction I hadn’t even thought of and solved many of the problems I was having with book three.  It’s been great.  However, I need to be realistic.  I’ve done very little other writing, so much so I haven’t even had the time to finish my latest publisher submission which I was started a few months before I started the blog.  I haven’t started writing book three, and barely done the necessary editing for book two.  This was supposed to be an aside… a fun hobby thing to do in my spare time… but insted it turned into the main event.  Which was of course awesome for me because I needed a fresh view to write from for a little while.  But I have so little excess energy and I must spend those energy spoons on the most important things.. and that is getting published.  I do fully intend on coming back to the blog storyline… I have evil evil plans for Taelin… which I still intend on writing, I just, have to get real and spend my spoons wisely.

Anyway, people are welcome to read and nag me to write, but as of 27 June 2009, I’m going to have to put a pause on the blog for a few months.. at least until I can get that latest publisher submission completed and perhaps a good skeleton draft for book three.

Eventually, when I get the time to start properly on the website, I will move this entire blog story over onto the website.. but that’ll be a slow project, and I’ll put up a notice for that when it happens.

Anyway, *bows modestly* Ara nee tasa
(this is basically the same as “Namaste”.. leave a comment saying as much if you’d like me to add a literal translation of this conlang phrase).