Art by Tasty Piece,©️ The Safehouse Collection 2021

A dark and stormy night, sexy reader…just how we like it.  These are good days and nights at The Haunt.  There’s a lot going on.  Still haven’t found a workflow and schedule that I’m really happy with, but I’m getting there.  Trying this thing now where I write one short story a week.  A handwritten free-write Monday morning concluding with a complete, digitally publishable short story at the end of the week.  If it’s obvious on Monday that this idea is something bigger than a short story, I’ll make as many notes as I can and then it goes in whatever to-do pile is appropriate: novel, full-length essay, screenplay, whatever.  So I’ve been at this for two weeks, and both weeks, by the end of Monday morning, I had written essentially synopses for what will likely be a screenplay and a chapter of a book, respectively, and no short stories.
A lot of times what I do feels like being each member and the manager of a five-member band.  And I am forever running out of time.

N.P.: “The Passenger” – Emily Autumn