Published 03:39:04
Sorry for my sudden absence, I fell ill and haven’t been able to write much.
Besides that, though, I’m going to have to reduce the Ætherglow release schedule down to once per week for now. On top of my schoolwork, the current pace has been too difficult for me to keep up and to give it the attention it needs. Sorry to slow things down this much, but it’s become overwhelming.
What time and energy I do have for writing outside of class assignments lately has also become entirely consumed by the latest draft of Sappho of Luna. Those who kept up with me long enough will know I’ve been working on and off on this novel for some five years, that it was the original and primary Ætherverse work, of which Ætherglow started as a side project. I’ve even shared some chapters of an earlier draft, but I have always been profoundly unsatisfied with it. Only this year have I hit the breakthrough I needed on it. Where I was struggling to find its direction for so long, I hit upon just the kind of style it needs, partly thanks to reading a lot of French authors such as Monique Wittig and of the Oulipo collective, and having the chance to study their techniques academically.
I know just what kind of strangeness this novel needs now, how to execute this Autistic dissociative stream of consciousness I always envisioned for it, and it’s taking me time to craft such an experimental work unlike anything I’ve ever written, breaking every rule there is to storytelling, text formatting, and social sensibility in the process. At the same time I’ve never felt so inspired. I wish I could do nothing but write this book for a month, but I have to settle for working on it when I can. Hopefully I can finish it this year.
Thank you for your patience.
~Winter