Showing posts with label Progress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Progress. Show all posts

Thursday, July 27, 2023

Another Week, Another Post

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Happy Thursday, everyone! I'm back with my weekly update. Sadly, it's not a great one. Over the past week, I've developed carpal tunnel like symptoms in both of my hands. This makes it really hard to type. I'm also between a rock and a hard place because my doctor's office has stopped taking my insurance and it may take up to two months for my waiver to be approved/denied. If it's denied, I have to find a new doctor and start completely over. No fun. 

But, what did get done this week? Well, just today I completely updated my character guide for the toy store book series. This will help me remember character names and bits of information about them. I've also updated my page count for Holidays at the Toy Store. I'm down to just needing three to four more stories. That's the same as last week, but it's more locked in now which is reassuring to me.

I'm thinking about writing about:
National Chocolate Ice Cream Day
National Juggling Day
Make Music Day
National Scavenger Hunt Day

What do you think?

In other news, the new bedtime is coming along. I've found myself going to bed earlier even on the nights that I don't have to. I'm also sleeping better, I think. Last night I slept for 12 hours straight which wasn't my intention but was clearly needed. 

So, that's it! If you have any tips on the carpal tunnel or anything else, I'd love to hear them.
Have a great week!






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Thursday, July 20, 2023

Progress

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It's been a week since I last updated you and though the progress has been slow, it's been there! If my estimates are right, I'm only three to four more stories from having the book complete. After that, it will be in the hands of my artists. Max does an incredible job with the interior art and if you've seen the covers of Tales from the Toy Store and Return to the Toy Store, you'll know Eric is one amazing cover artist. I only ever have the vaguest of ideas for covers and he always comes up with these fantastic covers.

In other news, I've been on call for jury duty for the past two weeks and never got called in. It's so hard to schedule things when you're on call like that. I feel for those who live like that all the time. Speaking of time, it was pointed out to me that I might do better if I went back to having some type of bedtime. I've been staying up to crazy hours and then sleeping most of the day away. I'm almost always tired. So, it's time to test this theory and see if this gets me in a better place. Heck, it might even help my creativity levels! You never know.

For now though, I have an open Word document, my headphones on, and some Disney music playing. That means it's time to get back to work on Holidays at the Toy Store! 




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