If you’ve
passed by here semi-regularly, you’ve seen me post many times about trying to
achieve balance in my life. There were a lot of stressful markers I was
continually dealing with, including deaths, relationship meltdowns, financial and health
concerns, and a couple of really toxic situations with some really poisonous
people. You know, the usual.
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In the
meantime, I’m going to put it aside for a bit. I’ve been spinning my wheels on
this story for too long. I’ll come back to it fresh. There’s another sci-fi/romance
novella I want to write, and I just joined a yahoo writers group, where we post
our daily word count. Also, after
exchanging several emails with my writing bud Samantha Storm, we’re going to do
a fast draft (based on Candace Haven’s method) for two weeks. She can’t start
until the 13th but I’m going to get going today.
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Then things
really went off track in the last year. lol.
Big changes
at work, not the least of which was the very real concern that I’d stay
employed. I did, but others didn’t. There
were others who, for all intents and purposes, got demoted. I made a lateral move/transfer.The good news
is, I like my new department. A lot of
the negativity I’d been dealing with is gone because of the change and there
are new opportunities here that I believe I’ll get great satisfaction in. BUT…
there’s been a HUGE learning curve, so steep at times it feels virtually perpendicular.
And of course the shit in real life
never stops happening, like in the space of a couple of days the basement started
leaking during a particular heavy rainfall then the A/C died. lol.
But I
handled it and kept my sanity, something I doubt would have happened even 6
months ago with copings skills that had been severely compromised. Extreme
and continued stress, anxiety, insomnia, depression tends to do that. Anywho, the
last 2 things that I’m still working on is regular exercise and writing. The exercise I’ve had better luck with if
only because I walk part of the way home every day after work (30mins). The writing has been sporadic. I’m beginning to think Mitch’s story isn’t
really Mitch’s story. This hero may be
some other character and the connection between this story and Hunter of the
Heart, is Alejandro. We’ll see.
In fact, since
I have today off, I’ll write on the train while I head down to the gym.
Oh yeah, considering I’ve finally done up a proper blog post, albeit a navel
gazing one, I’ll be scratching 3 things off today’s To-Do list. JImage may be NSFW.
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