However, since I am finishing a screenplay I started in the summer of 2017, I am now forced to (as I did last summer... when I get next to zero writing done!) re-read what I wrote in 2017 and then pick up where I left off.
I haven't slacked on writing this bad since I started writing my 6th novel Urban Prairie in 2011 and didn't finish it until 2013.
Or when I started the screenplay Momo: Survival in 2011 and didn't finish that until 2015.
This trend of slacking in my writing has only started in my 30's and is really depressing me.
However, two things...
One, until they keyboard on my 2011 MacBook Pro is fixed (which Micro Center tells me, with parts & labor and all, will cost me around $250 that I don't want to spend right now) I am rocking the following set-up (and will do so on special occasions even thereafter).
I am writing on my Azio Retro Classic Keyboard (style Artisan) and using my laptop stand.
Both Christmas gifts from this past Christmas and they are both incredible!
Love them!
Furthermore, when I was recovering from my bunionechtomy (which I'm still recovering from), I read The Howling III by Gary Brandener.
I have now completed his Howling trilogy and can move on to horror novels of his unrelated to that universe, which I'm sure will be equally as awesome.
The reason I bring this up is the issue of inspiration: Brandener has the ability to make a three-dimensional character out of even the most peripheral of characters in his story. That and his sense of mood is uncanny. The man really was a literary genius and I am appalled that he is not held up on the same pedestal as Stephen King, Peter Straub and Dean Koontz.
He really deserves his due.
But then... so does Diana Henstell, John Skipp, Craig Spector, Brian Keene, David J. Schow, Jack Ketchum and James Herbert (who was praised in Europe, but has yet to gain the notoriety he deserves in America), but I digress...
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