Tag: observations
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IWSG October 2025
October 1 question – What is the most favorite thing you have written, published or not? And why? It’s October already? Guh. Wasn’t I still trying to process the summer to-do list stress last week? The to-do list that never made it to the got-done list? Like get my body into spooky-season shape? I’m pretty…
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September 2025 Mental Health Wednesday
The last few months have been rough for me, though I don’t know exactly why. I’ve been excessively fatigued, exceptionally spacey. I’ve gone through the usual suspects: diet, supplements, meds, menopause, recovering TBI, a basic downward spiral, even the beginnings of a cold (that irritating beginning, where you wonder if you’re getting sick, but your…
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August 2025 Progress Report
We are formatting the ms for the first fantasy novel. It’s a little easier the second time around, but the PDF formatting is still a booger. I’ve learned from the formatting of the romance novel, to go through it for formatting marks and set it up for epub submission, then do the PDF formatting, because…
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WTF JULY 2025
This month, I learned, definitively, that the phrase “team player” in a work environment or on a resume, actually means “door mat” in a business environment.
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July Progress Report
We are now working on the art for the fantasy series. Maps, cover art bits, things like that. I’ve started editing the manuscript for the first in the fantasy series for epub and pdf. But what have we learned now that we are a PUBLISHED AUTHOR (buymybookASpecialBlwndofCrazybuymybook)? We’ve learned that when you hold a physical…
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Mental Health Wednesday: Diet
Depression can suck the energy out of me. Some days I literally cannot summon the raw will to go to the bathroom and swish some mouthwash. Just mouthwash. Brushing teeth? Flossing? When I’m struggling just to care about breathing? I should eat, but thinking about making something is tiring. Thinking about chewing is tiring. I…
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