The Alexandrian is meant to be a place for sharing and promoting my creative work, reviews, and political thoughts, so I don’t generally do auto-biographical blogging. It’s not that I’m a necessarily private person — it’s just that this isn’t particularly the place for it.
But today I’m making an exception because, as life is often wont to do, I’m facing some hardships that are affecting my creative work.
To whit: I have Lyme disease.
I went symptomatic a couple of weeks ago and promptly went down to the local clinic. I’ve been getting dosed with amoxicillin (among other things) and I thought I would be able to kind of push my way through it.
But no such luck. My brain has been just slightly discombobulated enough to make writing difficult or impossible. Because I’ll have bad days and not-so-bad days, I’ve even had problems getting the Playtesting 4th Edition essays I had written before I went symptomatic posted on a consistent basis. (Although that’s at least partly because I’m still getting used to the new suite of software I’m using to update the website due to the computer crash I suffered near the beginning of the month.)
In short, July has been a pretty sucky month for me.
If I was a suspicious fellow, I’d say that Fate was punishing me for announcing a release date for Legends & Labyrinths. After having several products run into horrible development problems shortly after having release dates announced for them, when I started Dream Machine Productions I decided to never announce a project’s existence until it was completely finished and ready to be published.
I’ve broken that rule twice — once in a minor way and once in a major way (with L&L). Both times the project has ended up being delayed past the original release date (once because of factors completely external from myself and, now, because I haven’t finished the work).
Legends & Labyrinths will be released when it’s done (and done right). But I’m not going to make any promises about when that will be. Heck, until I’m actually feeling better I can’t even estimate when that will be.
Updates on the website are also likely to slow down once I get past the material I’ve already prepped. (Although I’m hoping fervently that I will actually be feeling better before that happens.)
