October's To-Dos and Shameless Promotions

The first full week in October and I started out kind of slow. I really needed a nap yesterday, but I persisted through sleepy eyelids to keep everything on track. My writing calendar is a more than a little full. This month I will:

• launch a book
• revise my project for Kindle Scout
• outline my 2015 NaNoWriMo project 
• write, revise and release a novella by the end of the month

I'm glad I didn't throw any short stories or poetry in there. Those projects are still waiting patiently for their turns.

I've also launched my Fiverr gig for anyone who wants a little help promoting their books. I'm running a book spotlight on Book Review Bin and I hope you find this affordable advertising within your marketing budget. I put up one of my books to provide a sample of what the spotlights will look like.

And since I'm in promo mode, don't forget that the ebook of Seeing What Develops is available for pre-order now until the 15th. The print version should be available from Amazon and Createspace by the 15th.

Is the funny back?

Well, to answer my own question: not quite. I'm still pretty upset about work (76 behind, no new articles posted as of right now and I only have until Thursday at 1) and generally in a bad mood. But I did manage to pull out a couple of pages on my comedy script last night. Not great work, but I can't expect much for a first draft. I'm not going to pretend that I'm a comedian, or even a good writer, but I think I have a good idea and that should help move the project along.

In other news, since the cold is over I was able to get back to working out today. It was tough, and I had to change it from the normal time, but it was refreshing. And I'm starting the daunting task of my taxes. I'm using Turbo Tax, but I still have no clue what I'm doing since this is the first year that I'm a 1099-er with some W2's left over.

So it's House and Heroes tonight, a little bit of editing, and then off to bed so I can polish off 5 more articles in the morning and hopefully I'll wake up to a bunch of new titles. Maybe. I hope. If not, there's always pulling articles out of thin air.

Longing for a little meaning

I was thinking about the future today (always bad news) and I realized that nothing is going to go right. Nothing ever has, so why will it in the future? It sounds a little morbid, but I'm faced with finding a new place to live (again) and it's tough. I'm tired of moving, I'm tired of relying on everyone for every little thing that I need, and I'm really tired that my life lacks the opportunity to grow as a person. At the moment, I feel like all I amount to is a placeholder. I'm just filling in until someone else is ready to take my spot. It's sounds strange, but the metaphor makes sense in my head.

Good writers would use this angst and despair to write. But I'm too angst-y to get anything out. My mind is drawing a complete blank. I would go back to the latest project I was working on before my melancholy struck, but that was specifically supposed to be a comedy, and I don't want to ruin it just because of my mood. I hope I'll snap out of it soon. Depression doesn't work so well for productive times at work either.

Comedy Still Rules

I have been listening to and watching so many comedy programs that I am convinced if I had a little more motivation and little more witty timing that I could turn into a comic. No, not really. I haven't the talent at all. And jeez... would you look at that last sentence?? I blame John Oliver, Andy Zaltzman, and The Bugle podcast for the sudden British-izing of my sentences. So thanks guys. Thanks.
And what else is new... pretty much nothing. I can't think I am so determined to make it to NYC. I talked it over with my big bro this morning and what he says makes sense, but I just can't pluck up the courage to make the necessary emails and phone calls. But tomorrow is a new day, so maybe I'll just take forty assignments so that I can get out of getting what you all call a "real job."