Writing obsessively over the last few months, things have fallen by the wayside, including this blog. I haven’t had anyone message me and ask, “Hey, what’s up with that blog?” Do people do that? Maybe not.

The writing obsession is something I’ve mentioned before. Stories get ahold of me and it’s hard to do anything else until I’ve got them out of my head. I think the characters get to be friends, although I don’t know that’s entirely healthy. I know it makes them harder to do away with. That turned into a problem with the time travel series, as I ended up with too many characters. It’s one of the problems I have to deal with as I rewrite and edit. But loving the story is a marvelous thing. I don’t know how anyone could write something they didn’t love.

Obsession can be a useful thing. It’s a great way to get a whole lot of work done on a project. It’s when you have more than one project that it’s a problem. If only I had a way to change obsessions. Of course, if you can switch, then we don’t call it obsession anymore. We have nicer words, like attention or concentration or focus. I imagine focus having all the advantages of obsession with none of the disadvantages. Too bad that’s not the way my head seems to work.