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So Where Have I Been?

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You may have seen a lack of posts for a few weeks. Don’t worry, everthing is fine, I just got interrupted.

I got a very mild case of covid – so mild my doctor didn’t prescribe anything (as she noted, any medication would probably make me feel worse). All I had was sore throat for a day, then a 48-hour fever two days later. However I had to isolate (which was tough), and I spent all the time I could resting to ensure the best outcome. Psychologically it was kind of tough – isolated, tired, avoiding infecting anyone else, and waiting for the ten day isolation period to end.

That lasted ten boring days. I did a little work during my illness and then slowly back to normal – but it’s the end of the Financial Year and I had training to complete. So I had things to keep me busy when I wasn’t sleeping – in general people my age seem to need about 2 weeks to recover. I didn’t even return to any exercise until a week after I recovered.

I’m fully recovered about 11-12 days after the infection ended! However my sleep schedule got thrown massively off and there’s still some leftover stress. So I plan to use this weekend to “catch up” on life and sanity (and get back to my full daily walks!).

So most every project of mine got delayed one month. However I also had a lot of time to think about my projects for 2023, so stay tuned on my developing vision. And, yes, it involves worldbuilding of course!

I may also post how I handled isolation to protect my girlfriend – who did not get infected despite being in the same house as me.

Steven Savage

Steve’s Update 7-24-2022

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“Think Agile, Write Better”: Is making much more progress!  I’d tag the first draft at about 75% done.  However as I write it I’m adding new content and rethinking some formatting issues.  So if you beta-read (HINT), the final result might get some notable changes.

The Way With Worlds series: The new covers are moving forward now that I’m back to doing one or more a week.  They’re pretty easy – but that lulls me into a false sense of security when a weird formatting anomaly (usually fonts) shows up.  Otherwise I’m figuring disaster response EOM September, and one more book in December – probably something not related to disasters.

The Seventh Sanctum rewrite: Well this is one thing without much progress, beyond some setup option research.  Basically I need to get about 4-8 uninterrupted hours to make this launch work.  The next two weekends look promising.

Plus there are giveaways!

Steven Savage

Steve’s Update 6/26/2022

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“Think Agile, Write Better”: Writing away despite interruptions, and it’s looking really good – though I need more uninterrupted time. There’s a tone and style shift to make it “usefulness dense, language light” so it’s an informative but breezy read.

The Seventh Sanctum rewrite: Interruptions set me back a week or so, so I’m going to try to launch the July 4th weekend or the one after. I think I have a way to be able to activate the old site if it fails, so I’m pretty confident.

The Way With Worlds series: As note on hold until Q3 or so. Misinfo, Disinfo, and Propaganda is still selling great, which suggests it was timely.

The Compendium of Writing Advice: This keeps getting kicked down the list because of everything. Its still in my plans, but let me clear out Sanctum, get further on the Agile book, and deal with less problems.

Plus there are giveaways!

Steven Savage