I figured I’d start the year with some numbers.
Last year, my word count goal was 500K. I didn’t make it. When I look at the planning that I did for 2023, I had estimated that I would only reach 450K words and that I’d have to do a writing marathon sometime during the year to make it to 500K.…
Making Adjustments
This is somewhere between an essay and a blog update. It’s the best I could manage this morning.
As you may or may not know, my cat died on November 30th, one week ago. She was my constant companion for 17.5 years.…
For a while, now, since late summer of 2023, I’ve been planning on traveling with Blaze to do the Hadrian’s Wall walk. It mostly follows the old Roman wall built across the narrowest portion of England.
I’ve bought books for it.…
My darling Kiera passed this morning, Thursday, November 30, 2023. She was at least eighteen and a half years old. I adopted her in March, 2006, from a no-kill cat shelter. They estimated she was at least a year, possibly a year and a half old at the time.…
I’ve been on the carnivore diet for about six months now. I continue to feel amazing, with lots of brain and energy.
However, just having meat all the time, every day, can get a little monotonous. I’ve really had to up my seasoning, rubs, and cooking game.…
I went on the carnivore diet about six months ago. About two months in, I suddenly had brain again, was able to write as I had been in the before times. My daily word count has gone back to 3000 words a day, instead of 1500 a day.…
I recently finished the Water Witch Mysteries Kickstarter. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835431132/the-water-witch-mysteries
Here’s my analysis of how the campaign went.
Overall, I think this campaign was much more successful than the first campaign I ran for Paper Mage.
There are several reasons for this.…
Honestly, I’m not that great at dealing with distractions in my life. When I have a writing habit going, you would think it would be easier. Particularly since I’m loving the book I’m currently writing. (Have I mentioned how much fun this cultivator book is?…
Six months ago, I had cataract surgery on both eyes, and new lenses put in.
Since then, I’ve had three issues with my eyes.
Earlier this week, Blaze and I went out to breakfast and started talking writing and publishing.
I know, y’all are so surprised at that.
In addition to talking over some of the things that we are planning on doing next year, we got onto the subject of craft.…