As I’ve said before, I always think about “balance” as a verb, not a noun. I’m making some adjustments so that I can better balance every day. These are kind of crazy times. I’ll revisit in a month or so, to see where I’m at, to see where the world is at. Food I’ve been
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Ever since I figured out that I was having difficulty balancing, I’ve been doing my balance/strength pose every morning, even on mornings when I don’t do my full yoga routine. Basically, stand on one leg. Grab the ankle of the other leg behind you. Stick your arm out. Hold for the count of 10. Bend
I try to do a focus pose every morning when I do yoga. For a long time, I did a variation on tree pose. (Stand firmly on one leg, grab the ankle of the other leg behind you. Balance. Slowly lean forward, until your torso is parallel with the floor. Push against your hand with
Felt like I was finally back today, finding the right balance between day job and writing. I finished, “The Piano Time Rag” last night — it topped out at 8600 words. Tonight I started adding in all the things that were missing from the first draft. It’s at about 8900 words now. I figure it’ll
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I figured I’d post one more time about this. Clockwork Kingdom is still available as a free download this weekend. It rose pretty quickly in the ranks again. It’s now holding at #23 for free, contemporary fantasy. Last time it rose to #11. Last time, some of the free downloads turned into sales. I saw
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I haven’t been doing a good job of balancing things lately — there are so many things I want to do around the house, with my writing, with the day job, with the vacation rental. I’ve been pushing too hard. I ended up taking a day off this week just because I was stressed (and
The Baker’s Dozen anthology is now available! Travel to cold Seattle and the see the world from the viewpoint of a private investigator who just happens to be a ghost, then go down to the creole fairy courts of Louisiana, learn the secrets of 9s and how the raven warriors take care of their own.
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I’ve started the new novel, Siren’s Call. Wrote about 1500 words today — possibly more, as I kept thinking of things I’d missed and adding notes to the pages. While I’ll be keeping track of the word count myself, I’m probably not going to post it. I found myself getting too frustrated with it with
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Am plugging away on the next chapter. 1000 words on Monday, another 1000 on Tuesday. No writing today — I generally take Wednesdays off. But Thursday we’re meeting at the online coffee shop (14th and Pike) and I plan on getting more writing done then, as well as Friday and Saturday and Sunday and .