Quick Update - 13th of Feb

First I'll be extending the billing pause for another month.

I'm currently planning on restarting publishing chapters on the 10th of March. Hopefully by then I'll have a back log of five to ten chapters so that I can be consistent with posting.

What's happening with me. This week I'm on track to do a little under 40 hours of work. That's all been dedicated to gettign fate points book 4 edited and a little bit of work on book 3. Next week I plan on starting to produce Unhinged Fury chapters again.

Generally it's been really hard. My mind is struggling to do nothing and procrastinating massively at the thought of doing work. How this has played out in practice is that I've been reading lots (to distract) and all my time has been taken up by that and dad duties.

Currently I've sworn off starting new books and with exception of books I'm following I won't be doing any reading (at least until I'm properly back into a reading routine).

If you need recommendations my current reading list is

Scion of Humanity: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/89426/scion-of-humanity

PAth of Last Champion: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/98241/path-of-the-last-champion-sci-fi-litrpg-ancient

Spires Spite: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/80196/spires-spite

Ajax's ascension: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/51664/ajaxs-ascension-formerly-gamer-reborn

Path to Transcendence:https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/86047/path-to-transcendence-isekailitrpg

The Lone Wander: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/95097/the-lone-wanderer-astral-projection-and-world-hopping

That's basically in order of my current enthusasim for each of the stories. I've been patreon for all of them and am currently subscribed to 4. (not the first 4).

There are also a couple of other ones that I might pick back up. These are all series that I'm either near up to date or at the very least hundred plus chapters into them. These are What Will Be, Etherious, Elydes, super supporative, orphan, 12 miles below. Once more in order of liklihood.

Final piece of news is my wife has been suffering nerve pain and tingling for a couple of months (neck, arm, and occasionally leg). It's been so bad that she's been functionally disabled for the last couple of months but had still been doing most of her chores. She's gotten worse over the last week and thankfully is getting surgery on monday to replace two discs in her neck which means I'm going to  the primary carer until then and for a couple of weeks after which will stop me from getting back to sixty hour work weeks.

The operation has something ridiculous like a 95 % satisfaction rating but there is a 2/3% chance of something going wrong which is scary. It's been an emotional time, first because of the need for surgery, then with the pain relief drugs screwing her mental state, plus the continuous painm then because surgery was not covered by her private health insurance because so it had to be cancelled, then we learned private health will cover it and it was back on. Overall, it's been an emotional roller coaster. The funny thing is that all the stress of will the insurance cover it or not has put us in a better position. Because she's searched for other options and spoke to a lawyer (probably won't use them) but they suggested she look at her super and apparently her super had income protection for disability built in that we weren't aware of so that'll be a nice bonus of four to six months of partial wages when that gets processed.

Anyway apologies for the long radio silence. As I said it's been hard and the last four weeks has been the least productive months for me for the last 4 and half years that I've been writing. That includes time on holidays and full time working, covid excetra... grief is hard.