I was sitting here looking over my writing site and making sure all my plugins and such were up to date when I noticed I’ve only posted once here in 2026. ONCE.
This is simply unacceptable. For multiple reasons.
First, any good website needs content and being the sole owner and proprietor of this one, It’s my duty to post stuff here more then a few times a year.
I’m unemployed for heavens sake, I truly have no excuse!
And second, I’ve recently noticed that my brain decides to release just a good deal more of the happy chemicals when I’m writing, or hell even talking about writing.
Surely writing ABOUT writing is the ultimate key to inner happiness and peace right?
There’s only one way to find out!
I do finally have a dead line for getting the edits back on Connection Terminated (Chapter 2 up now!) which is both exciting and scary. Once I have those back, I’ll really have to sit down and look at my choices.
I can
- Continue querying in hopes of finding an agent and go traditional publishing.
- Shelf my book until later in my career and work on producing other work.
- Self-Publish and Self Market
As it stands currently I’ve sent a little over 100 queries out to agents and my QueryTracker looks about like this.
Granted, this is over the course of several years, and I am aware that selling an A.I focused Sci-fi Action Thriller in the age of “A.I. Everything” might be a rough road to go down.
In my defense, when I planned and wrote the novel between 2017-2019 A.I was still mostly Siri and Google Homes. The ChatGPT infested wasteland we have today hadn’t quite taken over. I just wanted a cool cyberpunk book I would want to read.
But I believe in stories and I believe in my story and if getting it out there myself is the best way, I have lots of fun idea of how to market it.
I’m trying not to let the road blocks I’ve faced so far detour me from making progress and pushing for it. This is my first book yes, but it is one of many to come.
I’ve been writing more, well trying to.
It’s almost overwhelming trying to pick something to work on, most of the time I end up with executive dysfunction trying to decide which of my 102 ideas to put time into.
I have ideas for short stories, full novels, novellas. So many ideas call for my attention and it’s hard to pick one to focus on. I enjoy world crafting and character writing and everything, but it’s hard to make myself sit and focus on a specific story.
ADHD is a hell of a fight as a writer I’m finding. Maybe one day I’ll be able to get on some medicine and maybe I’ll become and unstoppable writing god.
I feel my most complete when I’m creating worlds and characters and scenarios for them to explore. I’m gonna really try and and chase that more while I still have this wall of free time at my disposal.
So expect to be seeing more here. About my writing, about YOUR writing. And all manner in between.
I also post on Twitter a fair bit if you wish to follow me there. It’s probably my most active social.
I hope to see you there!
-JD
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