Happy New Year! I’m hopeful for 2025 to be a much better year, and very much hoping to get back to writing again. I fully intended to get back to it last year but life had other plans, again. My husband lost his father and I lost both my mother and father in 2024 about three months apart. The only emotions I could manage was anger and sadness. Heavy work demands had kept me away from spending more time with my family over the years, and even more so in 2024, and just like that I lost them both. Something like that forces you to reevaluate your priorities in life.
Writing has always been something that is required for me to be happy. But with the loss, I had nothing to give in creativity. I would call upon the characters asking them where they had gone, but just received silence in return. Until this last week. I found myself drawn to a YouTube of one of my favorite bands, Disturbed. This was a performance their singer did on the Conan O’Brien show performing his version of Sound of Silence. I knew he had an amazing voice, but this blew me away. It had been out there for years, but I somehow didn’t know, until now where it is resurfacing again in social media.
Many of the songs by Disturbed influenced scenes in my book, one of the most vivid scenes came from the song titled Overburdened. If you have read my first book, Rise of the Winged Assassin, can you pick which scene that was?
If you haven’t see their performance, here is a link to their version of Sound of Silence
I hope you have a great week!
