Gak, I am TIRED.
There's nothing specific exhausting me, I think it's just book worry, election overload, and general seasonal head/sinus congestion.
Mostly things are all right. Been kinda blue (I blame hormones and sinuses) but reviews and comments for SPORE have mostly been positive. I have some fairly extensive character reworking to do (I have a natural tendency toward iconic/symbolic extremes especially with characters, probably because I'm a theme-focused writer and generally an overly emotional person in real life). So, anyway, lots of great comments, very few line edits, lots of character changes to make but nothing really in plot/story other than some clarifying stuff. So that's all good and it looks like I should hit my promise to get it to NY on or around the 15th without any trouble. If any of you want to see the final version for a quickie look-see before it's out the door, please let me know ASAP. I'm estimating finishing around the 10th or 12th.
In other booky news, my Amazon sales for the ebook short stories have totally flatlined (as in ZERO sales) while other venues (Sony, Kobo, Apple Bookstore, etc) sales have skyrocketed three fold this past month or two. My only guess is that due to my occasional public grumbles about how I refuse to publish exclusively w/ The Evil Empire they've altered my algorhythms or something. I'm not talking a lot of money here, the ebooks were making about $10 a month, ish, on Amazon, but to have it fall to absolute zero for three months while moving upward from $4 a month to $12 with everyone else is just... suspicious.
So, um, yeah.
My physical last week went well - Doc was happily excited that I'm at my lowest weight EVER since she moved to specialty practice - and my bloodwork came back okay, but not great. She said not to worry, it'll take time for the new life-plan to really impact my internal numbers. But I'm officially down 12 lbs. So, yay!! My hormones are a mess, tho, and that's not fun at all. Mutter, mutter. Getting old sucks.
I sewed some this past weekend, which was nice. I have two quilts I HAVE to get done before Christmas plus several projects I'd like to get done. Must make more time. Plus the house is being overtaken by cobwebs and dog hair, so I really need to put more focus on housework. And exercise. And come up with the next book - whatever it might be. And write another Dubric novel, which I really don't want to do, but have to do (and I'm pretty sure that's helping feed my current dip into doldrums, I don't handle feeling forced to do anything well at all, especially when it's something I've been avoiding)
But, anyway, I'm all right, SPORE is mostly excellent, and I will be oh so relieved when this political nastiness has moved on.
{{hugs}}
2 comments:
Congrats on the physical! And the weight loss! And getting "Spore" close to mailing out!
Congrats on a week of good things!
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