How to go from something to nothing

Did ever an author suffer so…………..

I had such big plans going into the new year.  After ending 2008 on a high with news about my manuscript, you’d think I had nothing more to worry about except working on my sequel and finishing up a couple of outstanding fanfic stories.

Just goes to show, you never know when the next banana skin is going to make you fall on you arse.

That banana skin was in the form of my ex husband of eleven years.  The day before I was due to drive myself, my mother and my youngest daughter up to a new life in the far North of New Zealand, my ex slaps a court order on me preventing the removal of my youngest from our current abode…..Wellington.

We had already packed everything not nailed down in preparation for the movers coming on the thursday, booked accomodation for the two day drive up to Whangarei, organised and paid for a house to live in, had enrollment finalised for my youngest to start school on the following monday……everything was in hand.

then BANG!….*%*$#@&*%^(unprintable swear words) he ups and nails us to the floor  48 hours before we a due to leave(and all within the letter of the law, would you believe!)…….to compound the felony, there is no hope of getting a court hearing anytime soon. Which leaves me and my youngest in a cleft stick. The house is being sold, we have a paid rental waiting for us up North, and my ex says “there’s no hurry!”

Aaaaagh.  We had no choice. My mother now resides in the rental up North. We are existing on a bare minimum of goods and chattels in Wellington, and hoping that this can be settled out of court (read – by giving in to his demands, thereby being granted ‘his’ permission to move house) to get our lives back on track again.

Needless to say, any ability to set pen to paper has been blown completely out of the water. I can’t even exchange reading for writing because all my books are packed!!  I feel like I’m cast adrift with nothing to put my back up against, and I don’t like it….not one bit.

My youngest had to go back to her old school in the short term – explaining why to everyone who expected her to be gone a week ago – and I can’t get my head in the game at all.

I’ve always had a problem with this over the past few years, whenever something horrible happens concerning the court case it has totally wrecked my ability to focus and write, creating long hiatus on many of my past stories, much to the frustration of my fans.  Sorry guys.

Now I have to wait by the email for a reply to my ‘white flag’  of capitulation(under duress) and hope my ex gets over his gloating and doesn’t drag this out any longer than he has too.  Wishful thinking on my part, but I have to have hope.

So….all packed up and no place to go.  I really should write a story around all these drama’s.  Only problem I see – that no one would believe me!