{"id":7785,"date":"2012-10-20T12:01:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T17:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=7785"},"modified":"2012-10-20T12:01:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T17:01:28","slug":"still-here-wherever-that-may-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/still-here-wherever-that-may-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Still here, wherever that may be"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow, it’s been forever since I’ve been active on this blog. \u00a0I guess living in the developing world will do that to you.<\/p>\n

It’s not that I don’t have good internet access, it’s that the places where I can get it are often noisy and crowded, with a fair amount of cigarette smoke. \u00a0By the time I’ve checked my email, caught up on all the blogs I follow (or at least the interesting ones), and generally finished screwing around<\/del>\u00a0done everything else I need to do on the internet, I’m pretty wiped out.<\/p>\n

I’ll try to write my future posts offline, like I did in Jordan, so all I have to do is copy and paste. \u00a0I can’t really do that with Trope Tuesday posts, but for everything else, it shouldn’t be a problem.<\/p>\n

In any case, I’m still here–wherever “here” is. \u00a0Currently, it’s Tbilisi. \u00a0I came out for the weekend to pick \u00a0up a package from the USA…I was hoping to get the new kindle paperwhite, but instead got the case and adapter. \u00a0Turns out the actual device is shipping out next week–I’d say it’s a disappointment, but I’m actually just relieved to know that it wasn’t lost in the mail.<\/p>\n

Things are going well out here in Georgia. \u00a0The village kids are a lot of fun to teach–I basically feel like a rockstar whenever I’m at the school. \u00a0It certainly helps that I give out stickers left and right every time someone actually does their homework. \u00a0Whenever I pull them out, the kids say “smiley!” and go crazy.<\/p>\n

But yeah, even though I enjoy being out here, I figure it’s time for a change. \u00a0Like I mentioned in the last post, I’ve accomplished just about all my goals for coming out to Georgia, which mostly had to do with trying out a TEFL career and seeing if it’s a good fit. \u00a0I think it is, so I plan to go out again after a few months, but I want to come back to Utah for a while to see some old friends, spend time with family, and recharge before the next big excursion. \u00a0That’s the plan, anyway.<\/p>\n

As far as the writing goes, things are going, but slower than I’d like. \u00a0I’m only in chapter two of\u00a0The Sword Keeper<\/strong>, which is kind of frustrating, but I think I’ve overcome most of the hurdles and now it’s just a matter of buckling down and doing it. \u00a0I definitely think I can have this novel finished before the end of November, which would make it my second novel for the year (third, if you count\u00a0Star Wanderers I-IV<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

In terms of publishing, though, things are looking great. \u00a0I found someone to proofread\u00a0Star Wanderers: Sacrifice<\/strong>, and she should be getting back in the next few days. \u00a0If all goes well, it’ll be up on Amazon and Smashwords by Monday the 29th. \u00a0Star Wanderers: Homeworld<\/strong> is also getting close–I just need to get the feedback from my first readers and figure out where to go from there. \u00a0If there aren’t any major issues, it should be up by the end of November.<\/p>\n

I’m debating whether to splurge on the cover art for the omnibus, and if so, who to ask to do it. \u00a0This series have a very different feel from my Gaia Nova series, even though they both take place in the same universe. \u00a0Not sure what to do for the illustration, or who to ask to do it, but that’s still a few months down the road.<\/p>\n

That’s about it for now. \u00a0I’ll end with a few shots that my friend took in Prometheus Cave<\/a>, one of the coolest sites out here in Imereti province. \u00a0Imagine about a mile of caverns, brimming from floor to ceiling with formations like these:<\/p>\n

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Later!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow, it’s been forever since I’ve been active on this blog. \u00a0I guess living in the developing world will do that to you. It’s not that I don’t have good internet access, it’s that the places where I can get it are often noisy and crowded, with a fair amount of cigarette smoke. \u00a0By the… Continue reading Still here, wherever that may be<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[857,650,1],"tags":[335,42,705,529,495],"class_list":["post-7785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sw","category-sk","category-uncategorized","tag-adventure","tag-frustrations","tag-georgia","tag-indie-publishing","tag-teaching-english-abroad","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-21z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7795,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7785\/revisions\/7795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}