News from the bunker

It may seem that I’ve phased out again, and certainly the blogging is sporadic, but quite a bit of paddling’s been going on under the surface. The consultants have finally decided that there’s no way I’m getting my iron levels back to normal without one or possibly two iron transfusions, which will each give me 4 months’ worth of iron in one shot. They mentioned that the chest pain and the breathlessness I’ve been suffering was also a symptom of anemia – I never knew that! They think my period is the culprit, causing me to lose all the iron, so I’m to go to get the GP to do something to put a stop to that for the rest of my life, pump me full of iron, and I should be OK again. I can’t wait.

On the writing side of life, I passed my 250,000 word target for the year today. I’m not doing NaNo, as I’ve failed it the last 3 years and that’s rather discouraging, but the yearly word target allows me to have big gaps and days off when I’m editing/planning, being a mum or being ill, while catching up whenever I can.

I’m not stopping at that, because I’m on scene 27 of Trowchester Blues, which is planned as a 30 scene book, and I want to finish it by Christmas. (Ideally I want to finish it next week.) So my eventual total will probably be more like 275,000, which is not too shabby

I think, despite being ill for the last 6 months, this is the first year when I’ve been properly productive. Now I’ve just got to keep it up.

Mirrored from Alex Beecroft - Author of Gay Historical and Fantasy Fiction.