Personal blog ¦ Life moves pretty fast; if you don’t stop and look around…

¦ dialling in from sky bunker¦

07:21 GMT, Thursday 24th Feb. It seems I’ve been thinking about writing up some personal stuff for weeks now but just never have the brain juice left to get some words down. I think I’ve been burning the candle at both ends too long, and with a blowtorch. The final push to finish the 11 months of hell, re-writing Yellow Dawn; I’ve popped out the other side with a sense of grinning blissful relief… but also the (foolish) notion I can continue with the intense pace, switching to a raft of new shiny things I’ve got lined up to roll out.  Instead… I’ve succumbed to exhaustion.

On top of this, my house – Cosy Castle – is falling apart, or at least that’s how it seems. The big crack in the roof of the Sky Bunker continues to worsen and now leaks every time it rains, leaving trails of rusty water running down the inside of the wall – in one way appropriate for a writer who works with gritty horror and post-apocalyptic vistas, but living in it causes an acute sense of stress. Added to this, now have water getting into the kitchen through a flawed back-wall; electrics have blown again.  So, phone calls made, contractors coming round to evaluate damage and work required to make repairs. The joys of owning a house that’s 130 years old.

I caught up on sleep last night; 12 hours straight.  I’m going to enforce a period of “you will take time out to chill, relax and do fun things” for the next few days. I haven’t played Skyrim since mid-December.  I haven’t spent a night just watching TV for ages, or so it feels.  All work and no play makes Davey-boy eye his two-handed wood axe in a strange new way…

However, against this backdrop I have been to see some great shows lately; Coram Boy;  Strictly Gershwin, and I do feel like I’ve been managing to insert enough social time into my relentless creative routine so that I’m getting to see friends on a regular basis. Which is important. How can you maintain friendships when you don’t see them?!

And there are some truly great things coming up that I should be looking forward to: a day-trip on the Simplon Orient Express; island hoping around Malta; a weekend of Yellow Dawn at Hayling Island, and hopefully some full-moon skinny dipping in the freezing ocean with veins kept fluid through copious amounts of whisky. Ah yes, good things coming. And of course, a raft of new creative products; Monsters of the Mythos (Yellow Dawn supplement detailing new Great Old Ones, Outer Gods and non-human species); Living in Flames (6th novel); Songs of the Spheres (anthology of short stories) before I start working on the next novel – a Cornish horror story involving the Fungi from Yuggoth (Mi-go) called Oakfield.

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David J Rodger – DATA