50,000 is the number of people reportedly living in my town. It is also the number of people who attend GenCon in downtown Indianapolis every year. 50K. Imagine an entire small city worth of people showing up to support role playing games and the writings, costuming, movies, etc. based off of the RPG genre. Unfortunately, I couldn’t be there this year, but my heart is with the gamers taking part in the ‘Best four days in gaming’ and especially with those who are going to be picking up my new short story as part of the World of Shadows Shadowrun Anthology edited by John Helfers. I’m geeked about the anthology and about the other awesome stuff coming out during the convention.
On the other hand, this is the 2nd year that I’ve appeared in no more than a handful of publications, meaning my output has decreased significantly. The culprit? There are a million of them that all swirl back to the central idea of not handling life before life handles me. Fortunately the end of that is fast approaching (the handling, not life). I believe I’m close to hitting my ‘sweet spot’ again after identifying the issues holding me back and making some early stabs at fixing them.
It is time to shine again.