What a wonderful word that is. Without doing a deep dive, I’m confident I’ve never used this word in any of my books. What a pity since I do like this word. For those who like definitions. The definitions I’ve found of the word include: a pause or gap in a sequence, series, or process; to cease being broadcast for a period of time. I also found this in my search on hiatus as it relates to relationships: “In the most fundamental sense, taking a break means that you and your partner haven’t officially broken up, but you’ve decided to take some time off from each other and your relationship. It’s also key to keep in mind that taking a break doesn’t have to equal a breakup.” So…dear readers, honestly, I haven’t broken up with you; I just took an extended break.

The last time I took a significant break from all writing, including my weekly blog, I was in an uninspired space. That last 4 months. Fortunately, that hiatus resulted in my novel, Inspiration Takes a Vacation. I can’t do another book about writer’s block because I pride myself on putting out books completely different from previous novels. I simply cannot write a certain trope and change the names and occupations to produce a new book. That is not how I roll. This time it’s been more than 4 months, and the break has been for similar reasons. I’ve been discouraged, and I just couldn’t bring myself to think up new topics to talk about every week. It’s a lot harder than it looks.

So…why do people take a career hiatus…here are some of the reasons I found on the Internet, and surprisingly some absolutely match up with what I’ve been doing.

• Gain a new outlook on life – I’m trying…
• Spend quality time with family – My wife would certainly dispute this one
• Take a break from toxic work environments – Unfortunately, if one spends enough time on social media, one’ll find there is, unfortunately, a significant amount of toxicity in lesfic/sapphic/WLW writing and publishing
• Reevaluate your career plans – meh, not so much, unless you count re-evaluating the effort it takes to write and publish a book versus the reward. For me, when only 100-200 people read one of my books, it’s kind of soul-sucking in relation to how much effort goes into writing that novel.
• Get involved in a passion project – not unless you count bingeing on Netflix or reading everyone else’s wonderful novels!
• Travel the world – well…not so much the world yet, but traveling to Mexico has been awesome.
• Focus on your mental health and well-being – I suppose this counts since I sometimes find myself in a funk over whether it is worth it to write one more book.
• Master a passion – Nope, I haven’t pursued this, although I should. Maybe it is time to take a few writing classes….
• Learn new skills – see the one above.
• Get perspective – My good pal Ali has been trying to get me to gain some perspective…not sure it has worked yet.
• Follow your dreams – I would if I knew what those dreams were.
• Learn a language – this is something I should have been doing with that time, but alas, I did not.
• Road test a new career – Oh, hell no, I’m retired!
• Reaffirm your life – If I knew exactly what that meant, maybe I’d try!
• Give yourself a health boost – I suppose I have done some of that since learning I am not as healthy as I thought.

So…in conclusion, can we try again. I really don’t want to break up with y’all. If you keep buying my books (hopefully a few more of you than before), I’ll keep writing. Deal? And…just to make it easy on you, I’ve included some links:

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