April showers bring May flowers and so many projects.
Yes, I normally juggle a few writing projects but it seems like everything is wanting to be written at once. And I'm excited about all of these things so it's hard to focus on just one. For the record, focusing on one project while pondering the others is how I would recommend managing this balancing act. It's just not working right now.
Currently on my virtual desk:
Painting interior art for Laya's Vacation (children's picture book)
Writing The Adventures of Nugget the Space Chicken (young reader chapter book)
Writing I9 (stand-alone adult Science Fiction Mystery
Finishing Interface (stand-alone YA sci-fi)
Writing Godmother (stand-alone YA fairytale)
Fleshing out this new idea for a funny post-apocalyptic zombie/ghost story that just manifested.
Among other things that are not-so-patiently waiting their turn. OMG. If someone knows where the dial down on the idea faucet is, could they help a girl out? Please?
On the things I can check off my list from last month:
The refresh for the interiors of The Narvan series is done and uploaded. This was more of a 'for me' thing because I wanted them all spiffy to match the new novella prequel release of One Shot at the Sphinx. Which, if you didn't grab your copy from my last post, it's still free on Smashwords, B&N, and Kobo.
In addition to several events, I visited with the members of the book club at Jason's Books and Coffee in Grand Rapids who read Destiny Pills & Space Wizards. (And yes, I look weirdly photoshopped into that photo, but it's legit. Crazy phone camera focus)
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T-rex joined me for
the West Michigan Women's Expo |
Kay-Kay and I visited six classrooms for March Reading Month, talking about books, writing, and chickens. We had a lot of fun and so did the kids.
My new distraction:
My flock grew last month. Meet Lucy. She's a Toulouse goose mix that is settling in nicely with my chicken ladies.
When I'm not busy working out the yard, playing with my flock, or working on that list of projects, I'll be signing books at these fun places:
April 6: Cadillac Pop Con, Cadillac, MI
April 12-14: Grand Rapids Spring Fling Comic Con, Kalamazoo, MI
April 26-27: Whitestown Viking Festival, Whitestown, IN
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If you're not familiar with and find links to all the other participating writers. |
Speaking of doing lots of things, let's get to this month's Insecure Writer's Support Group question:
How long have you been blogging? What to you like about it and how has it changed?
It doesn't seem like this long, but apparently, I've been at this since January of 2010! When I first stepped into the blogging pool seemed like so many others were doing it too. These days it feels like our numbers have dwindled. It could be that many, like me, are still at it, but we don't post as often as we used to. Thanks to this group, I can say I at least post once a month. Hooray for that!
I met a lot of fun people through their blogs, had a great time doing various blog hops. The A to Z challenge was a particularly great one that pushed me to think of new ways to work that in each year. Sadly, these days, I don't have as much brain to devote to blogging as I did back when I was first starting out. At that time I was just getting into the publishing world, writing a lot of short stories and polishing my first novels. Now I'm busy going out to promote my bookstack and drowning in the perpetually running faucet of inspiration when I'm home.
There are far worse problems to have. ;)
Keep blogging.
