Current events have taken a toll on me, but also given me ideas for how to make the dystopian society in my current project more dystopian. I didn’t want that, but I will take advantage of it.

I’ve been weeding through my collection of notes and making edits. The story is better for it, but I admit writing dark scenes when I already feel darkness surrounding me, makes the darkness worse.

I’m at the halfway point where the direction of the story changes and the protagonist goes from passive to active. I’m hoping that brings light. I need more light.

Meanwhile, for the fun of it, I made a camera orbit animation (the camera rotates around the subject) of Hope and the dragon she calls Baby. (This is not AI. It is a 3D computer generated image known as CGI. I’ve been playing with CGI for 30 years.) The animation needs improvement, but I have other work to do.