Into The Vortex [Alternate Timeline Will Return In 2025]
You probably saw this coming...
Dear members of The Timeline…
Given my many broken promises regarding the release schedule or stories and Sci-Fi Fuel updates from this year, you’ve probably been waiting for a post like the one you’re reading now.
In a recent update on my main newsletter (available to paid subscribers next Monday), I described an element of why I must constrict my energy and lofty pursuits due to the weight of what feels like a looming recession:
2023 was the year of many things I didn’t expect or quite know how to deal with. But, luckily, I had the financial freedom to not pile “the hustle” on top of it. Now, for one reason or the other, that freedom bubble is dissolving and the water around it gaining more mass. Less opportunity… Less room for risk… Higher stakes… But I think it’s important to remember it isn’t the bubble’s fault. It’s the water around it. And I’m grateful that I have at least used my time in the bubble wisely.
is one such wise choice made in the freedom bubble. I’ve learned a lot about myself in writing each of the nine stories and 14 Sci-Fi Fuel updates posted so far. And each delay has riddled me with guilt. Not just at the idea of letting my small but loyal group of subscribers here down — but also myself. I love the challenge and emotional journey of writing a story. Particularly here here in this pocket universe of my own creation.
My aim now is to turn into an incubation lab with occasional posts for the remainder of 2024, search for a sustainable structure for 2025, and use the shrinking writing time I currently have in an attempt at:
Getting stories published in sci-fi magazines.
Polishing scripts that can get me staffed on TV or (if I’m lucky) even produced.
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From the bottom of my heart, thank you all for supporting this strange thing. See you in short bursts for the remainder of this year — and more consistent bursts in the years ahead!
-Tim
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