First some highlights of last week and next week:
- If you haven’t already, check out my interview/chat with Sally Ember, Ed. D. on Youtube.
- Cast your vote for who gets an excerpt during the last week in November. I’ll be trying to take as much as I can from Book 6.
- The posts this week are the results of the latest ‘Monster Maker Fun’ post. Hope you enjoy the critters.
Now for the rest of life . . . I think we’re at the point where me saying that I’m NOT exhausted is news. With the temporary situation, I’m handling the cooking, cleaning, kid, and everything else along with the writing and editing. Thankfully, I’m through the more challenging books and I’ll have the next one edited by Halloween if not earlier. Then I’ll step away to edit Curse of the Dark Wind another time to make sure I have the continuity ready. It shouldn’t be very difficult since it’s shorter than the others. Maybe I’ll post about it later today since it brings up an interesting question.
Come to think of it. I don’t have much to talk about. It’s been a real slog ever since the interview since I’m trying to maintain so much. I guess you know it’s bad when I fall asleep on one of my notebooks and it’s the afternoon. I have been going hard for months now, so maybe getting to sleep in and relax tomorrow will help. I know next Saturday will be a early morning, silence, and late night period for me. In other words, I’ll be away and won’t be heard from until Sunday. This is dependent on me keeping my health and energy up. Man, I’m out of steam already here. I also keep feeling like another bout of the blues is trying to hit me. Seems to happen whenever I’m put under stress and can’t seem to find a way out.
AIM, READY, GOALS!
- Finish doing a quick read of The Compass Key to lock in continuity and see if I can catch any typos.
- Start Curse of the Dark Wind final edit if possible.
- Cook dinner every night.
- Take son Trick or Treating and prepare candy for Halloween.
- Review a few book ideas.
- Do biking every morning.
- Work a little bit more on Yola story and Bounty Hunter.
Addendum: I’ve been wondering about sharing W.I.P.’s on here. I have a few scheduled for November, but I’ve run into problems when I do this. Mostly people seem to think I’m going to do the story right away and I fear it’s causing confusion. Also, I don’t get much of a reaction from these posts and they kind of require feedback. So, my future projects might remain in the shadows until it’s they’re time. The more I think about it, the more I realize that the content of my blog is going to be chopped down once January hits. The character interviews, W.I.P., and other posts will be eliminated or minimized. A lot of Legends of Windemere stuff will suffer the same fate until it gets close to a release. I should probably sit down and figure out what that leaves me with. Poetry, goal posts, skits, and stories about myself? I’ll have another 2 months to figure this out. I already have my first ‘Personal Post’ ready. 😀
Legends of Windemere 
It will be interesting seeing how this shakes out.
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I hope to be awake for it too. Going to be a hard week.
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We celebrated Halloween today in our neighborhood (then we get a second dose on the actual date). Had fun carving a blue pumpkin (never would have thought my daughter would find such a color).
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Very cool that you get two doses of Halloween. Never heard of a blue pumpkin. Where in the world did she find it?
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A local church was selling pumpkins to raise money. I was surprised when she found a blue pumpkin in the patch. (Decided not to make the pie…)
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Seems to be a really rare type of pumpkin. They have red ones too.
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It’s the first I recall seeing one that wasn’t orange. It was almost a shame to carve it. Though I discovered that blue pumpkins are still orange inside. 🙂 (Maybe I’ll remember to put a pic on my blog one of these days…)
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Interesting. I’ve seen white pumpkins before, so now I wonder what color they are on the inside. That sounds creepy when I read it back.
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The pumpkin looked white today, so I’m guessing those look the same inside.
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A color changing pumpkin? You sure it isn’t magical?
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Maybe I should plant it in my backyard.
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That might be how you make a portal to Halloween Town. 🙂
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when you feel the blues coming on, make a list of the things you accomplished in the week, what you’ve written, who you’ve made smile, what you’ve done with your boy/family, how much you’ve hugged your wife, chores, allof it. Then phone a pal. reward yourself for your achievements: maybe a thousand words deserves a stiff drink in the evening, family time calculated and converted in to ‘daddy points’ with which to spend on having them bring you breakfast in bed or similar. focus on the positive and you’ll feel it, focus on the blues and it will get you. remind me this at some point! You are amazing, Charles, keep smiling, you’re doing great.
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Unfortunately, it isn’t that easy. It’s more of a mental reaction to being stressed for too long. So it snowballs if I don’t get time to relax. It’s one of those mindsets that makes me focus on the negative of a situation, which ends up getting others to complain about me being pessimistic. Oddly enough, people tend to complain if I’m optimistic too. Been like that for a long time, so these moods tend to be a challenge to get out of. I’d call a friend, but I rarely catch any of them on the phone and I feel bad for dumping stuff on them so often.
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Charles, we all get like this, I preach about beingpositive when , in truth, I’m a hypocrite as I suffer with depression and anxiety, but I do manage a lot better these days and all I said still holds. you’re always welcome to email me if you need to get stuff off your chest, pal. and as for dumping, that’s one of the things friends are for, which is why I don’t mind mine dumping on me because i sure dump back. communication is a big part of getting through the tough times. keep smiling 🙂
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Thanks. Maybe I’ll take you up on the offer if it feels like it’s getting bad. I’m trying to relax a bit today to let it fade.
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I hope the blues don’t hit you 😦 That said, it’s difficult when life just seems to pile up and up and up and there’s so much to do but where to start or even why start…some nights make the perfect nights to feed everyone a sandwich…
Ellespeth
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We’ll see what happens. So far this week is turning into a disaster.
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Oh! The interview! I almost forgot…this I will listen to tomorrow evening.
Ellespeth
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Hope you enjoy it. I tried my best. 🙂
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