Travel, Work, Tattoo, Rinse, Repeat

Three whole months gone by and one of it was spent traveling. Not a bad way to pass the time, though it’s sort of thrown off everything I planned to do in the first half of the year.

After Toronto two weeks ago and visiting family this past week, I really need to get back on some kind of schedule. To do that, I need to finish all the little loose ends and nitpicky things that will distract me otherwise. I wish I could say that I’m just procrastinating finishing my poetry books and editing Book 3. Alas, it is not avoidance, but necessity. Brain wired differently and all.

So I’ve pushed all my work-work out a week to give me time to do things like mend my grandmother’s decades-old cardigan, build the Tallneck Lego set with LEDs, start and finish reading at least 3 books that aren’t authored by me, do all the annual spring housework, figure out the light-up face mask thing I got for my birthday, organize closets, etc.

I’m hoping that I’ll be so motivated, I’ll finish everything early and get to FTR and AYWAS (the two poetry books) before next week. Otherwise, my writerly plans overlap the slightest bit with going back to New England for my grandmother’s memorial.

But my motivation has never been consistent.

I had a wonderful birthday, thank you. I threw sharp weapons and hit things with a club, ate a bunch of cheese, accepted gifts with grace. Got a gift certificate for my next tattoo. Still never entirely sure what age I am at any given moment. But it was a fun week.

Editing of the two poetry books should be done before the next newsletter in May, and maybe I’ll even commission covers for them. First draft of Book 3 should be mostly done by the same time, as well as brainstorming my next romance trilogy, which I already have ideas for. I’m also trying my hand at a homebrew RPG campaign I’ve had in my head for about a year, but haven’t had time to write out.

And in the next week, I’m going to learn how to use Atticus, so, wish me luck!