It’s been a good and a bad week for me. My gout is acting up so my pain level is up – this is the bad in case you didn’t know. I’m going to get the whining out of the way. I’m having a hard time walking, standing up straight – this is also arthritis not just gout. With the rain, comes pain.
On the plus side – I’ve got a new book out. I have a five star review on it on Goodreads! I also got a five star review on the crochet pattern – Half Dozen Headbands!
I was writing hot and heavy on a story but I’m looking for ideas. While I look I’ve been doing all sorts of other things – marketing, editing, and reading. I have all my book covers on Pinterest and Mogul. Next step is to get them up on Instagram.
I’ve been feeling really grumpy lately. I’m in serious grumpy mode. This doesn’t happen to me often. I don’t want to talk to anyone (yet here I am writing a blog – yes I am aware of the irony) and I don’t want to do social crap. I want to do what I want to do and if I could do it alone – all the better.
People don’t get the need to be alone. I haven’t had a lot of time to myself and it means I’m ornery. I don’t mind talking to the right people but lately I feel like I’m stuck in a rut and not able to get what I want done. The problem? I’m not getting the writing things I want done. I was supposed to publish two manuscripts (one under my pen name and Royal Undercover). I only got one done. I’m grumbling about my current work in process because I’m not getting the other things done.
I have a list of subjects for the crochet magazine. I’m hoping to get a few projects done so I can submit them. I have a couple of ideas I need to get done for the event in November. My to do list grows and grows. I need to take a breath and either write it all down (which will probably put me in shock) or I need to let it go and get busy.
This week I’ve been reading. I started a few series and have read a few books into them. I’m not reading a dragon series by Julia Mills. I don’t know how I feel about it. There’s a story line which carries on throughout the books. I’m hoping the format isn’t too formulaic. The first one was good enough I wanted to read the second. I’ll see how the second goes. One thing I don’t like is there’s a lot of internal dialog – which I’m okay with in general but this seems like a lot. These are supposed to be erotica books – that means getting the two main characters together and getting things going. I skim a lot. I’ll see how I feel after the second one.
I need to crack down and get stuff done. I think if I can get things done, I’ll feel better. So I either shove a movie in and crochet or I work on writing tasks. And I stop whining.