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Releasing Control, Finishing Chapters and Struggles with Publishing

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When did April fools day become just another corporate advertising tactic to milk into oblivion, I opened my phone this afternoon and saw shit jokes from companies trying to stay relevant with the young folk by posting unfunny attempts at April fools jokes. I know big business already destroyed most things we love; football, movie streaming, reading, podcasts etc, it looks like April fools has been added to the list of things made shittier by money (Yay!).  Finishing Chapters Anyway, I am back to work tomorrow. I took four days off as holiday giving me nine days in total to get my knee sorted and spend some time actually resting after a tiring (emotionally and physically) start to the year. Well that break turned out to be a disaster as I threw my shoulder out almost immediately upon the break starting, had a doctors appointment for me knee pain and caught a crappy cold that knocked me on my arse for three or four days. Silver lining, I got to catch up on Bulldog 3 and managed to f...

Ignoring Writers Block, Physical Media and some Knee Pain.

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This March weather is testing me, I think its been cold for about eighteen months now. Anyway, I am on day five of a much needed holiday break from work, I took a block of days off rest up around a doctors appointment with a bone specialist to check out that nagging knee problem (finally). I intended to just relax, rest up as work has been incredible testing lately, and perhaps get some headway into the tail end of this third Bulldog book. In reality thus far I have spent time with the cat, had my knee appointment and got my home in order again - also been cooking a lot which I've enjoyed. So lets get into the tofu of this weeks update. Ignoring writers block. I wrote eighteen pages for Bulldog final chapter involving Cleo & Jacob, I then deleted them all as they didn't feel natural to the characters. Now I am slowly creeping back through that final chapter and as I approach its end, and the end for some of these characters, I have found myself struggling to ove...