While compiling the additional lyrics to be added, I noticed that there was none from 2017. I had to reflect as to why I'd not written any songs during that time. I may have written lyrics that were later put to music, but I'd produced nor released no songs during that year. In fact, I saw lots of productivity during early 2016, then hardly any during the latter half of that year, and also that my songwriting activity remained relatively scant during 2018–2019. On reflection, I realized that during most of that time I'd spent most of my free time out of the house, going around town, shooting video for a film that, after almost four years of assiduous effort, I no longer felt like editing. So it goes, and so it went, and with that preoccupation off my shoulders, my song-production gradually gained momentum through this year, which has matched that of 2016, the previous boon year. In fact, 2020 onward has seen me cutting a lot of artistic crap and focusing more energy into the integrity of the songs themselves. Such contraction-expansion cycles are inevitable, and can be quite restorative for one's creativity.
No promise on the release date of the book, though I'd like to get it over-and-done some time in January, 2024. Not that anyone's looking forward to obtaining a copy by paying for it, but one has to do everything for the sake thereof, without anticipation of any return on the investment of time, intention, resources, and oneself.