I am hoping that the maelstrom of drama that my life has been the last three weeks is over and that now I can get down to work again.

While I don’t want to discuss all of the roller coaster I’ve been on, I will say that I nearly made some decisions that would have made my life sheer panic for the short term, but would have given me a new dynamic for the long term. I just wasn’t certain that new dynamic would have been sustainable. So, some agreements were made and I’ll work toward that new dynamic in a way that feels more comfortable and balanced for the long term. It did help me clarify my own personal agendas and what I enjoy doing in terms of support for my writing.

Bad explanation I’m sure, but that’s how it is.

But wait, there’s more!

My oldest son, who is in his 20’s, decided to get his driving permit (though it was nearly a week after he got it before we actually got to go out to start learning — seriously, who waits a several days after getting his permit before jumping excitedly into a car to learn to drive? My son!) He wants an electric car so badly, so we’re trying to make that happen.

It was also show week for him and he was performing in Legally Blonde. That always makes a long week for both of us, and why he had to delay.

I also decided to synchronize my workflow between my computers, so that I don’t have to stop working on something when I’m charging one of my laptops. It’s been a growing problem, so I started testing options so that I could keep working. While my current plan isn’t perfect, at least I managed to finally get Tangled Magic all edited and done.

And while I working on the edits, I got back to dictating, mostly for Palladium. Of course, because I had to move my profile from a laptop which I had to replace because it was so slow and reinstall the software on another laptop. Because I can no longer get the updates for the program and I was encounter minor irritating problems with the software, I had to update to the newest version of the program. At least I didn’t have to retrain, although this is the 3rd version of Dragon which insists on making “Steigan” as “Steve again.” Okay, so I do find some humor when someone shouts my character’s name in the dictation and it comes out as “Steve again!” It’s almost like, “Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!” (Brady Bunch reference)

So between those things, I’ve been whacking back computer gnomes left and right as well as editing up Tangled Magic, but that’s done now. I hope my reader doesn’t find too many issues with it. I don’t know if she’s read any of the Sacred Knight series, so I’m hoping she’s not completely lost. I’d like this story to be a good entry point into my world.

There’s more, but due to time, I’m going to cut it here and let you get to the story.

Palladium

Chapter 33

by Dawn Blair

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Gohaldinest: city of ancient magicks.

It might be the only thing that could come between them.

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