I really love being in “the zone” when I’m working on a story. The problem is that I forget to do little things like sleep. Who has time for that when there’s creating to be done? Back when I originally wrote Family Matters, I was lucky if I got 3-4 hours of sleep a night, in addition to working a day job. But I just couldn’t turn off my brain. My entire existence was writing that story. And I was perfectly okay with that… except that one time I had a little bout of microsleep while I was driving home from work and, during those few seconds, dreamt about Philip Seymour Hoffman being naked and covered in gold paint for some reason. I have no idea where that came from; maybe my brain decided to give me one of the weirdest mini-dreams ever as a reminder to get some damn sleep before I wake up in a ditch. At best.

So now I’m determined to get more sleep while I’m working on a story. Maybe not tonight, because it’s almost 6am right now, but eventually.

The revised Family Matters, complete with a bunch of bonus content, is in the hands of my formatter now (@arkonna at Fiverr, who has been exceedingly awesome with my previous stories), and as soon as they’re done working their magic, I’ll be publishing it. Stay tuned.

But first, sleep.