To those who have encouraged me to continue Bounds of Decorum, your kind words have brightened my day and reminded me that my writing may indeed benefit someone. My muse is more susceptible to reasoning like that than “Well, I ought to be writing!”

This is just the latest in the delays on Bounds of Decorum. It would have been done months ago if I hadn’t made the mistake of trying to write to someone else’s dictates. My publisher is only interested in publishing my stories if they have sex scenes in them, and Bounds of Decorum doesn’t. Now, I have no problem about writing sex scenes (you may have noticed that), but I just can’t write gratuitous sex scenes to save my life. BoD has plenty of mushy, romantic, and I hope provocative moments, but sex scenes just don’t belong in it by the nature of the story.

So I’ve been stuck on the question of whether to try to make myself write something that doesn’t come naturally (a big source of writer’s block) or to write something that’s destined to be rejected (also not a muse-friendly activity). What I need is to get back to the place where I feel it’s safe to write, and to remind myself that I write for the sake of writing, not to please a particular person or for a particular outcome.

I’ll try not to keep you waiting too long!