Enjoying the Journey- No, Really.

 Sooo... this Memorial day weekend I ended up having a 4 day weekend because I went to take the vaccine on Friday, then went home afterward in case of possible side effects. And then Monday everybody had off because it was a holiday so anyways...  My precious body blessed me with a fever all of Saturday, rolling around in a half awakened state on the couch for the majority of that day. As I was in the middle of vaccine purgatory, I had an epiphany.  Start working on my next book, that's what I need to do! So I start Googling and Youtubing stuff about writing books from famous authors (J.K. Rowling, Stephen King etc). I even start writing in a little bit on chapter 2 of my second book's word doc. I am getting real juiced about writing and writing another book at this point. I'm thinking about ISBN numbers and cover art, getting way down the road in my thought process.  Then sometime into Sunday it dawns on my that I can't make no damn money writing another book. I sho...

 So I started writing book #2 and I'm nervous and excited about starting the process all over again. I am just trying to wrap my head around it and get out those first jitters of feeling like everything I write is not good enough to put down on paper or on laptop.  I am downloading all the lessons I learned in my first book and swishing them around in my head, hoping some of them stick. One would be to get a professional editor as a gift to myself for my birthday in 2023. I've created an outline and general direction of for books plot line--which is amazing to me because I have been spending next to no time on creative projects since I started working again 2 months ago doing property management to ya know, bring home the bacon.  So, my outline seems to me like it showed up out of thin air. I have like no energy after I get home from work and it's really a blessing that my husband gets home first and is able to do stuff like prepare dinner.  I'll be the first one to ...