Not dead, just busy. I’ve managed to learn a lot more about theme and how to use it in story construction, so I’m going back and rewriting a few works of mine that have shown promise. These are short stories and will take me away from the novel for a bit, but I’m considering it good practice. For me, this new understanding of theme is a game changer. I’d talk about it more, but I want to feel I have a solid grasp of it before attempting to talk it out. So I’ll be busy writing for a while—which is good, that’s what I’m supposed to do. Oh, I also need to update my submissions, but I can’t do that today. I’ll get to that this weekend. No sales to report. Mostly just rejections. That’s just the way it goes.