Much drama in Texas, with freezing weather, electric grid fails, and lack of water service. The cold is old new to me, but power outages, although sparse out where I live, have been troublesome. We didn’t lose water service, but due to breaks in the lines we are under a ‘boil first’ requirement at the moment.

This has disrupted my writing a bit, but I’ve continued to search for inspiration, slowly but steadily solving plot issues in existing books and working on project start-ups whenm nothing eldse suits. Dark Journeys, book 6 of the Phantom Badgers, has reached 32k words, but is badly stalled. Benson is still stalled at 75k, but I feel close to pushing that to completion.

So bad weather or not, I’m still plugging away.

I got a great phone call from an old friend who just finished The Zone, and it lifted my creative spirits to considerably.