Hello my dearest friends, bonjour, nuonasera, and all the other greetings too!
It's been... well, a while.
And seeing as it has been a while (translation a freakishly long, unbearably awful, crazy time that cannot be understated) I feel that I owe it to everyone to answer a few questions:
Let's get the biggest and the best done with first: am I dead, and if so is this tumblr post being written by my restless ghost, unable to escape the purgatory of the tumblr graveyard where all absent writers are forced to go?
No! I am alive and—very shockingly given my absence—well. Was I always well? Wellllll..... no. There has been a lot of ongoings in my life in the last year that led to my absence. Sure I've been lurking around, but I haven't really been here, and for that, I'm sorry. It's been... a time and it would probably be best for us all if I just leave it at that.
But then again if my life were a tv show, there would have to be a recap, so here are the non-depressing highlights:
I got promoted (yay!) and then willingly took on a second position on an adjacent team to build my career and improve my resume (less yay), which led to a moment of self reflection as I considered my career goals and how I was going to get there, which then led to self-reflection of my personal goals and how I was going to get there, which then led me to realize that quite a bit of both needed to be adjusted. And knowing that nothing changed if nothing changed, I stopped fucking around and made some changes. I lost thirty pounds (yay again!) and then immediately reignited a knee injury I've had for a decade that got myself placed back into my tenth round of physical therapy (way less yay. Carl, if you're reading this, I hate you). I moved, paid off some loans, went on a lot of bad first dates, got back into yoga, realized I sucked at yoga, attended two funerals, helped a friend through a 6-year break-up, got into baking, etc. etc. etc.
And while a lot of it sucked, I can finally say that I got through it. I am very happy now, the healthiest I've been in a decade (minus a knee I now have a prescription arthritic cream for), and fairly confident that I've finally learned how to my balance work life with my social one with my debilitating need to travel.
Blah blah blah—when is she gonna get to the good stuff?
I know, apologies for the long-winded monologue when there is a much more important question in the air: what is happening with Falling Without A Harness?
Nothing!
Everything!
All the things!
I am not stopping this story, going on hiatus, or quitting. I promise. I'm not—and I'm not just saying that either—I'm foaming at the bit to start working on it now. The only obstacle is that I lost my voice a bit during my time off the internet, and while I've been wanting to get back into the story for a while, it's been a painstakingly slow process of trying to find media to inspire my inner voice again. There have been a lot of movies you guys, and after so much trial and error and disappointment—finally—I feel ready to get working again (all thanks to the Thunderbolts, Bob specifically, ie the most pathetic little man ever that just so happens to be the love of my life). Marvel definitely isn't as good as it used to be, but that movie reminded what it was like to have a muse, and so I've started some rough drafts on any idea that comes to me just to get practicing again.
I will be posting the next chapter of FWAH soon. I'm going to practice a little more on my writing style, before I plan on hopping back into the rough draft.
My posting schedule will be nowhere close to what it used to be but I think that's probably a good thing (for my life personally, I understand as a reader that this unofficial hiatus is probably the most frustrating bullshit ever, I have been there). That being said, I still have a very clear vision of where this story is going to go that I think you guys will like!
So, in short: sorry for the delay, I'm back and working on it, and thank you all so much for your patience and love! Every message I've gotten over the last few months meant the world to me, and I hope to start working on my replies soon.
XOOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO — Gerald












