No, I haven't forsaken my Substack. I've just been busy, busy, busy.
Some in the writing community call this time of year the Time of Great Forgetting. By that they mean when the weather turns warm writers forgot to write, said writers being out and about and doing fun outdoorsy summer stuff and all and not at their keyboards.
Well, maybe.
Me, summer's usually one of my busiest writing times. Nothing convinces me more to stay indoors at my desk and type than stepping out into the sweltering heat. I’ll choose air conditioning over blast furnace every time.
This month alone I've turned in two short stories and am a goodly way into another one. By the end of this week, I'll have my second story published this month (which means the second promotion push for the month, too). I've galleys for a Kickstarter anthology story I need to proof. In my few non-writing hours. I'm busy researching for the current story I'm writing as well as for the next story on my schedule.
I'm too busy typing to forget to type.
Lee Allred's prose fiction has appeared in Asimov's SF as well as dozens and dozens of anthologies and various other fiction venues. He's also scripted for DC (Batman '66), Marvel (Fantastic Four), IDW (Dick Tracy), and Image Comics (Madman Atomic Comics).
Go you! It's not so much a "time of forgetting" for me as it's a time of "I have to mow the 1 acre of grass twice a week, the chicken coop needs fixing, the garden needs tending, and I keep getting calls to go investigate some Sasquatch hotspot."
Way to turn it around!