Cinco de Mayo

Cinco de Mayo

Bienvenidos el Cinco de Mayo.

May 5 is a touchstone of sorts. And it’s one that I never seem to remember. One day, years and years ago, Mom and I were talking about our creative lives. She paints and designs and works in forms of visuals arts and fine arts.

One of us said, “I wonder where we’ll be in our careers a year from now?”  When that statement was uttered…it was uttered on Cinco de Mayo.

So, we use May 5 as a checking-in point, a status, a touchstone. How much have we accomplished in the last year?

So, where do I stand? Well, for me, books are selling. Finally, finally, finally, after so many years of trying for creativity (acting, pitching music, etc), something has achieved a degree of success. During the last year, I worked two movies as an actor. I worked a couple of TV commercials as an actor, on one of which I was lucky enough to get to utilize my dance training. I have struggled with audio engineering for so long, but now I understand more by working with Nik Pardue, the engineer at Nik’s Studio, at E.X.P. The Experience. That is a private recording studio in Oklahoma City. I’ve learned soooo much from Nik. So, finally, after years of trying, I’m beginning to have recorded music be something I can hand to a person and say, “This is me!”

It’s funny that that is the hard part. I’ve been a musician my whole life and a songwriter my entire adult life, but not having good quality recordings of that music has been such a roadblock. Okay….roadblock is in the process of being knocked down.

Splat!

So, yes, all in all, it’s been a good  year in terms of accomplishments.

Is it enough? It’s never enough? When will this creative juggernaut be satisfied? There was a line on Mad Men the other day…something about, “Ambitious people are never satisfied.” I wish I could remember the quote exactly.

But more than all this, it’s about what’s underneath the surface. I have maybe 4 books in active stages. I have maybe 15 being worked on in my head. There are sooo many movies and screenplays and a stageplay in my head. What does it take to get them out? It takes something…effort, chutzpah, agony, to pull them out of a human. Then there is the postpartum phase, a depression. That is one of the most difficult things to survive about living this creative life.

There’s sooo much I want to do in terms of video production and music production. Sometimes you have to put things by the wayside and focus on other things–the important things in life that supersede creativity. The last few months have been like this.

We had tornadoes in my community about a week ago. When you’re down in the cellar, and the storm is whirling overhead, you wonder if you’ll come up and have a house? When we came up, all our neighborhood houses were standing. But many, many people in our community had damage, devastation and destruction. My heart aches for them and for what they’ve lost. As far as I know, no one was injured or killed. But the challenge of rebuilding lives seems daunting. One thing I love about Oklahoma…is that people show up to help. There is such a spirit of kindness, of giving. People showed up from hours away to help those in need. That’s why I love Oklahoma. That’s why I live here.

Today I plugged in my video camera to charge up. I don’t know the last time I plugged it in, nor used it. But, maybe today. Today, I picked up a guitar (love the intro to “House of the Rising Sun”. I need to look up who wrote that. But if you are reading it–thanks for such an amazing song.)
This weekend I worked on a book blog tour interview and met a very nice author. She will be kind enough to promote my latest book in the near future. I’ll post links here when it’s up.

So, there are always things going. I just submitted for an acting role. I wavered about doing so, not knowing if I’d have the energy to expend or not.

When you’ve had health problems, you tend to compute life in terms of how much energy things will take. I don’t know if that will ever change. But, there comes a point when you go, “Why the hell not submit?” Even though acting roles take a ton of energy, they feed something in you. You come home and sleep, sleep, sleep when they are done. But, it fills the creative wellspring about as well as anything.

Have a lovely week.

Free ebook, Marriage 101, Sunday and Monday

 

Today and tomorrow (Sunday and Monday, April 22 & 23)

Marriage 101 is a free ebook at Amazon. When you click on the link, make sure it says: Kindle price $0.00.

Blurb:

Sometimes the thing you can’t see, is the thing right in front of your eyes. For close friends Katherine Anderson and Steven Colby, the chance for a romantic relationship was a hurdle that was too big to climb–until Katherine needed a pretend husband, and Steven agreed to her ruse. Thrown together, in the company of strangers, they find that their pretend relationship doesn’t need much pretending, and that real feelings are starting to grow.

Katherine Anderson is a committed career woman working as a psychologist in the field of marriage and family. She is excited to be asked to attend a symposium at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. The head of the symposium, Professor Krumsfeld, tells her that he is looking forward to meeting Katherine and her husband. Katherine is not willing to contradict the professor, and possibly create a career speed bump, so she asks her old friend Steven Colby to pose as her husband for a month. Once in Stillwater, in such close proximity, they each begin to experience feelings that are more than friendship. Conflict arises from the lack of understanding they have in each other. They dive into a romantic relationship, not taking the time to first build a solid foundation. Along the way, they encounter several obstacles, such as Steven’s girlfriend, their not-too-happily married roommates, and a marriage and family symposium that is not what it seems to be.

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Have a fabulous day!

Issues of Marketing…and Keeping on…

Amazon has a program called KDP Select, where authors (like me) can sign up and have exposure to marketing they would not have otherwise had. The rules are, that the only place the ebook can be available is on Amazon. Given that I haven’t figured out other e platforms  yet (learning those other platforms are on my to-do list) giving my books a three month period in KDP Select seemed to be worth the risk. During the 3 month period, your books can be borrowed, and each borrow gets paid from a pooled fund, and you get 5 free promotion days per period, per book.

I had no idea what to expect. This is a new business model. But, I’m trying to figure out book marketing. (I started to say, I’m trying to figure out how to be an author, but that’s not exactly true. This isn’t about writing. It’s about promoting your writing). So, with the first book with the first free promotion day, I had 1000 downloads. Of course, you are giving away your book for free, so there is no profit there. But I figured that the more people who knew about the books, the better. It’s a way to get your work out there. Subsequent free promotion days netted about 1200 and 1700. So, that’s pretty cool, right? Then I saw someone’s blog that gave a tip to run the free promotion at least 2 days in a row. I tried that with other books. The mystery went nowhere. I don’t know if it was a fluke or what. But, the romances were the ones that went large. If you can get to the Top 100 Amazon bestseller list, then the downloads really, really happen.

So, for promoting my fifth book in this program, I ran the free promotion 3 days. And got 10,500 free downloads.  That blows my mind. That’s not passive as advertising would be. This is active. 10,500 people made the choice to get my book. Then, when they read it, maybe they tell their friends; maybe they look to see what else the same author has written, etc. So, I put my sixth book on the free promotion, and it had downloads, but didn’t quite perform as I wanted. So, I kept adding days, till all 5 of my free days were used up. Lesson learned: don’t schedule the free promotion days on a holiday weekend. Once the weekend was over, and once the visibility was huge, the downloads really happened. I ended up with 15,200 free downloads of the book.

That has GOT to translate to sales. I’m still trying to figure this out, and see what happens. In one way, it seems very strange to give away so many books that I have worked so hard for. But, no other promotional method has gotten me to such a visible place in such a short amount of time. If I had purchased advertising, that is people’s eyes sliding across the advertising–it’s passive. How many of them would stop and read and comprehend, or even click through? But actual downloads? When I add it up, I have had over 30,000 copies of my books downloaded for free. The number seems staggering. I’m both excited and scared. It’s great to have that many readers exposed to my work. It’s scary to think that that much of my work is out there being judged.

I’m one that has never had much problems with self-confidence. About three years ago, I had a crisis of self-confidence, and am still working my way out of it. But, all of a sudden, it seems like now I’m on the other side. I’m the one who is out there, being judged. As a creative person, can you ever really be prepared for what happens when you are visible and judged?

I became aware of this about the same time as the Oscars. What is it to be a celebrity and have everything you do be judged and vilified and criticized? Every thing you do, people are commenting on-as if they have a right to judge your personal life. Clothes, makeup, work, choices, family, even choice of restaurant ( XYZ celebrity ate at a restaurant owned by ____, therefore they must approve of _____’s politics, therefore I will never see one of XYZ celebrity’s movies again, because I don’t agree with ________) , type of dog to get (how dare they get a breed dog, they should have gotten a shelter dog–making any choice other than that is sacrilege), etc.

Well, now I’m the one who is being judged, and let me tell you–it sure made me stop judging celebrities so harshly.

I have some of those letter magnets on my refrigerator. On occasion, I rearrange them to spell different things. Right now, the front of my refrigerator says, “Put it out there.” That means: take this creative work that I’ve spent my whole life working for, and put it out in the world. Don’t get me wrong–I’ve been submitting and pitching and sending my work out to the world for a couple of decades now. I’ve pitched music where nothing else ever happens; I’ve had book manuscript rejections; stage play rejections; and acting rejections out the wazoo. A lot of times, you don’t even get the courtesy of a rejection. You just send the thing–whatever it is–out to the world, and never hear anything again.

It’s just that now…it seems to be the time in my life for all this stuff to come together and start working.

It should be fun. Sometimes it is. I’ve spent my whole life looking for validation for my creative work. I define myself by my creative life. I choose for this to be the most important thing in my life–to the exclusion of other things.

But, instead of being fun, it seems like there is this great unknown that is before me. What happens next? Am I on the right path? Am I making the right decisions? In those darker times, you wonder if you’re wasting your time, if you’ve wasted your life? I’ve started a couple of essays about that, but decided not to post them on my blog. I don’t want to be the person who is always writing “downer” things.

Part of this journey is terrifying. You’re betting your whole life that you were born to do this impossible thing. You believe you were sent to this sweet Earth to achieve this goal that most people try and fail.

You, yourself try and fail and readjust and try and don’t succeed and try and try again. Is that a sign that you’re wasting your time? Or, do you keep on keeping on?

A man who was very dear to me said something once, and I remember it to this day. I thought that I loved music as much as a human could possibly love music. But then I met him and became involved with him, and discovered that he, somehow, loved music more than I.  I  told him I was trying to make it as a songwriter/publisher, and I’d been at it for 15 years or 30 years, however long you defined the counting. (I’d been pitching music for 15 years, but been a musician for 30 years, etc). He said, “Then you’ll make it.” I questioned what he meant. He said that if I had been at this for 15 or 30 years, and I hadn’t quit yet, then I wouldn’t quit. I’d keep going till I made it.

I can’t quit. Quitting is not an option to me. I need this as much as I need oxygen.

Still, it’s scary out there. Working to achieve success in three fields, when making it in one is almost impossible. How do you define success? If success equals money, then I’m still working (and working and working!!). If success is visibility and accomplishment, then maybe I’m there??? Each step on this ladder of success, we celebrate. My support system is solid and so strong. The people in my life who have seen me through this journey (you know who you are!!!), are my rocks. I need them so much. They are the ones who make me step back and go, “Yeah, this is soooo cool”.

I’ve worked several movies (volunteering my time for free–hoping to get noticed), but still, I’ve worked with a number of Oscar winning actors (literally worked with–five feet away, with the camera pointed at us, front and center). I’ve had my music recorded by one of the best female singers out there. I’ve performed on stage for hundreds of people and had them in the palm of my hand. I’m listed in IMDB (that was a huge accomplishment that I soooo wanted to achieve). I’ve been on best seller lists (the free bestseller list on Amazon, but still, that counts, right?) I’ve walked a red carpet when my movie was nominated for an award. I’ve had people quote my own writing back to me. I’ve had friends and strangers ask for my autograph. I’ve had actors and musicians cold-pitch to me–as if I was the one with power (usually I’m the one cold pitching to everyone else).

You  go out and do these things and on occasion, magic happens. Then you take out those memories and live them again, during those dark days, and you hope that the best is still yet to come. I had an acting job on a TV series (again, unpaid, but when I go to these things, I get to be around people like me). No one paid me any attention. I was first up on set, to do my acting. It was hard: chroma-key, solo acting, but it will be edited together to have a whole crowd. You are restricted on your range of movement; you have no one to act against or react with. The director is feeding you lines, so you’ve got to stay in character. All during the setup time, I was quietly there, not rehearsing my lines out loud, just contained. No one paid me the slightest bit of attention. I was a nobody. Then I went on set. I did my first line (this was a comedy). The director called “Cut!” Everyone in the place burst out laughing. One camera woman was doubled over with silent laughter, waiting for the cut. I did my second line. Same reaction. By then, people were coming into the set to see what was going on. By the third line, the director was telling me how he wanted it. The first AD said, “You leave this woman alone!” ( In other words–the AD wanted me to do my thing as I’d rehearsed it). I slayed them again. When I was finished with my work, and came off set, every single person in the place grouped around me. The director said, literally said, “I want to know every free moment you have for the next six weeks!” So, in that short space of time, I had gone from _nobody_ to the one that everyone wanted to be around full power. I was a somebody. I was THE somebody on that set. It was such a heady feeling to have wowed them.

So, during those dark times, when life is scary and you question your sanity, I take out memories like those and tell myself, “Yes, there’s something there. It’s working. It may be slow in coming, but it’s there.”

When life is blah, and you’re scared and alone; when life keeps dealing you hit after hit, challenge after challenge; when putting one foot in front of the other seems like the most difficult thing you’ll do today, you hope that the bright spot on the horizon is a glint of sunlight, and not a train coming down the tracks to knock you down.

But, every time I go through one of these loops, I come back to the same place I started–the place that says, “I WAS BORN TO DO THIS!” Gut feelings that strong are not to be ignored. I can handle it when the instinct is that strong. It’s when it takes a little break and goes away for a few days that I start to panic. Then everything comes online again, and I take yet another step forward.

What lies next on the horizon? Is this the year the big break happens? When I look at these book free downloads, and realize over 30,000 people have acquired my books, I keep saying, “At least something is happening.”

I wish for you all to have peace and have love, and I hope that all of your own dreams come true.

Free Kindle ebook, Friday and Saturday

Friday and Saturday:

There is a promotion going on with a free Kindle ebook for:

What Happens in Vegas…
Make certain the purchase prices says, “Kindle price: $0.00″.

This is a full-length contemporary romance.

Blurb:

What Happens in Vegas…

What happens when, on the spur of the moment, you marry a man you’ve just met? What happens when you wake up the next day and reality and rational thought return? For solid and respectable Texas Sheriff Sheryl Garland, the gossip of a quick annulment would mean the end of her job. For Texas rancher and businessman A.J. Sutter, it means bewilderment at his sudden bride’s defection.

But when word gets out about the marriage, and Sheryl asks A.J. to pretend like it’s a real marriage, A.J. knows that he has to find a way to convince Sheryl to stay married to him–for real.

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Thank you and have a fabulous weekend!

Public Speaking

What is it about public speaking that bothers people so much? I know that most people dread it more than death, but I love it. Give me a microphone and I’m home.

I do a lot of volunteer work with the Chamber of Commerce, and we served a meal tonight to an annual event. So, it’s nice to go and help out, and I enjoy seeing friends and people at this event.

But, another Chamber person and I were talking, and she was due to give the welcome, and she said she hates public speaking. I said that I love it. So, without planning it ahead of time, I made the l speech at this event tonight. (If I’d known I was doing that, I  would have dressed better! LOL)

Why is it that show people love attention so much?

Was chatting with another Chamber friend and mentioned my new book. I said something about, “I have ebooks for 99 cents”.  She said, “You mean I can read them on my Kindle!?!?!”

So, that was super fun. Our local library is having an open house this week, and I donated my newest book to their items for which they were holding a drawing. Being an ex-librarian, I love to support libraries in any way I can.

So, other than that, still plugging along. Working on writing 2 books, thinking of music business things. There’s always something percolating, even when it’s not big news to post here.

Have a great week and a Happy Easter!

Review: Forever 11:59

FOREVER 11:59 by Amanda Ball

This book is as cozy as the whisper of a porch swing on a summer afternoon. Add a tall glass of iced tea or lemonade and welcome to Autumn, Kansas, population 950. The town has a service station, a diner, a city hall, empty storefronts, a beauty shop and the right characters for a rainy-day read.

 Protagonist Carter Thompson writes historical novels and parks her mobile home wherever research takes her. She’s as independent as a hog on ice as folks in places like Autumn might say. Carter’s in town for the 80th birthday of her great-aunt Edna, a little old lady whose body is determined to keep pace with her mind. I don’t know where this story is going but I am aboard for the ride.

–review by Pat Browning

author of ABSINTHE OF MALICE (Krill Press 2008)

Kindle and Nook E-book $2.99

http://browningpat.wordpress.com/

Cowgirls ‘n Angels – in Theatres May 25

Cowgirls ‘n Angels is a movie shot in Oklahoma in 2011, and today there are press releases everywhere announcing that it got a distribution deal! Congratulations!!!

The Oklahoma film industry is huge, but the general public doesn’t seem to be aware of that fact. Several major movies have shot here or are shooting here, and many Oklahoma based filmmakers are doing great work.

I was lucky enough to be hired as an extra on this film for several days, and it was one of the better film sets I’ve been on. My business parter, Don (who is a real cowboy and actually wears cowboy boots and a cowboy hat in real life) and I really enjoyed our time on this production.

The first day I went, they were shooting a rodeo scene.

For my birthday about a year before, Mom and Dad gave me a gag gift–it was actual spurs–like horse riding spurs. They thought it was funny, and they knew I’d get a kick out of the gift. But my first thought was, “Costume!” During my birthday party, I had said, “I can wear these on movie sets.” Mom said, “I didn’t realize you might have an actual use for them.”

So, fast forward to last year, the first day I went to the filming. I called Mom and  Dad and said, “Guess what I’m wearing?”

After all…just how many places can you wear spurs and have them be haute couture?

Check out the movie trailer.

Making Music

Great recording session yesterday. Was good to shift gears and work in music. The thing that floors me: for the second session -my musicianship is not up to snuff. I’ve GOT to play better and be more precise, and do more and make more music within a song.

For the most part, it was a very good session. Mostly on these, I’m laying down piano/vocal demos. On one song, I needed piano, rhythm guitar and lead guitar. Whew. That didn’t work at all. I will come home and work my piano playing and guitar playing up to higher levels. I’m not exactly sure what my problem is. I have an electronic metronome, but maybe I need a louder one, or something louder, to practice playing to a beat. If you’re not used to that click track, it can throw you off.

But, I’m happy with several of the demos we did. Last session I had blown out my voice by the end, but for some reason, vocals were working good yesterday. The last song in that last session I knew we had to re-record, but I got it yesterday and got a good track on it.

The uptempo songs are easiest to lay down, and most easy to control vocal-wise. Or maybe I’m more comfortable singing them, because they are fun and sassy. The slower songs tend to have more emotional content. They have “real” emotions in them, and those emotions come from the heart, and come from things I’ve lived, so they are much more personal. You are truly laying yourself on the line, and when you think about it, it isn’t easy to be that vulnerable.

I’m someone that doesn’t talk about relationships, etc, at all, but to convey those relationships in song, for all the world to see? It’s scary out there.

Anyway, I tried to lay down the song that is the most vocally difficult to sing. I will re-record it someday soon, but now I have a template for knowing what to work on, etc. The most disappointing was another song with the piano and two guitar tracks (three guitar tracks if you consider that I laid it down acoustic first, which wasn’t working at all, then I switched to electric, figuring I’d have more control that way. I did, but the playing still was not at all adequate.) I laid down the structure of the song on the piano, just hitting the one measure downbeats, but didn’t like that at all. So, next time I’ll use a bass as the anchor, and I’ll figure out a way to play rhythm better. And I’ll re-structure the lead break, playing the same notes, but in different places on the guitar. At least now I know where I stand, and know what work needs to happen next.

But, with the vocals working overall, I decided to lay down a song that requires extreme vocal control, but since my fingers weren’t in the best shape, could I pull off the piano parts? So, we started in. The song has a great structure and chord progression. Everyone loves the chord progression. C, Cmaj7, C7, F, Dm, Gsus, G, C. It’s a sad song, talking about heartbreak in its purest form. Once we finished it in the studio, I listened to it once all the way thru, but didn’t even want to listen to it again. It just hits you in the gut. Total sledgehammer to the mid-section.

I’ve listened to it since I got home, and it does something to me. It takes me to another place. I try to listen to it with a critical ear, trying to figure out what edits it needs, and where my vocals or piano need to get better for the future. And I can’t critique it, because every time I’ve listened to it, it transports me to another place.

Okay, if it affects me that way, when I’ve had literally years to get used to the emotional effects, how does it affect a first time listener?

Anyway, the engineer wanted to build orchestration on that song, so we will work on that next time. I think we’ve got ahold of something special.

I call this “synergy in music”. Synergy is a business term when the whole adds up to more than the sum of its parts.

Synergy in music is when the music becomes more than the instruments and vocals and things that are on the tracks. Something more happens. When that magic happens, treat it as a gift. It’s rare.

Having this recorded music is a dream come true. Now…finally, I’m at the place in my life where I can hand someone a CD and say “This is me.” It’s taken years of work to work up to this level.

And what surprises me the most? On some level, and I don’t understand it…I’m scared of this. Dealing with fear is not something I’ve had to do in my life. I’ve worked my whole life towards “success” towards “making it”. My whole life is geared towards this, today, making the world aware of who I am, sharing my art with the world, etc. This is the threshhold. The time is now.

It should be exciting that people are hearing my music/reading my books/seeing my movies and tv appearances, etc. It is…sometimes. But wow, mostly it’s just scary being in this whole new realm/being judged/being open to criticism. Never would I have thought that I’d react this way.

I feel like a turkey with its neck on the chopping block.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m grateful. This whole life is a gift. I’m trying to use it the best way I know how.

Free ebook on Tuesday: Branson’s Beauty

Today there is a free ebook download on the Kindle platform for _Branson’s Beauty_.

The book is a romance novella, set in the showbusiness world of Branson, Missouri.

The free book promotion is for today only (Tuesday) for Kindle books. If you don’t have a Kindle ereader, there is a great free software called Kindle for PC that lets you read Kindle books on your computer.

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Things are happening here, as usual. Yesterday I worked on Reflections, both the writing and illustrations. I drafted a drawing of a mailbox (which is my part of the cover art), and wrote a good bit of the interior stories. In my whole life, I’ve never had two active writing projects going at once. I might write one thing, then put it away, and write another. But, this week, I’ve actively written on two books at the same time. There was a time when I could not even have a day job and have a writing project going. (The writing project took too much concentration.) Now, I’ve got a day job, multiple writing projects, art projects, music projects, etc.

Jump back!

If creativity is a train, it’s nice when it is rolling down those tracks.

Have a fabulous day.

Free ebook: Forever 11:59– today only!

Head on over to Amazon to download a free Kindle ebook – my first mystery: Forever 11:59.

This ebook is free today, only, for the next few hours.

Even if you don’t have a Kindle–there is a great free software called Kindle For PC, that lets you utilize Kindle books. I have been reading digital library books on my computer for the last couple of weeks, and this new technology is fun and neat!!!

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Trying to balance real life and a creative life can get intense. Just this week, there was a chemical leak near our town, and authorities issued a voluntary evacuation order. I went to stay with a friend who lives some miles away. I had car repair issues that took time to resolve. Every time I left the house, I’d pack the car, not knowing if I was going to get to come home for several days. As as result, now I can’t find anything. So, today I’ve been putting the house back together, cooking from scratch, doing laundry, etc.

I did some technical work on book things. A co-writer and I are working on a book with the code word “Reflections”, and I put some work into that. Most of my part of the writing is done, but the organization and editing will take some time. I need to draw a mailbox to be part of the cover art. Wow? Me, with a piece of cover art? I have art training, but it’s so far down on my priority lists, I don’t work it, nor practice it. But, in talking with my co-writer, I thought of a black and white drawing I’d done some years back, and asked if it could be considered to be part of the inside illustrations. Yes, it could. So, if I have one inside illustration, why not more? If it passes muster, imagine putting my artwork into a book? New territory to explore.

I set up the camera and shot many ‘studies’, to be considered for cover art for various projects. I have many book things going. One cover art is a necklace, but I was able to experiment with various lighting, and we got some interesting photos.

I need another cover art with an outdoor chair, a patio umbrella, a lemonade glass with a small umbrella, and the figure of a female sitting in this chair–we the viewer are looking from the back. So, I drew that, just to get the angles down, but I think we’ll have to set up the photo shoot, and get a real study. This is too much to create just with a picture of a chair; a picture of a patio umbrella, etc.

I went out and took photos of my mailbox. I’m sure the neighbors were wondering what I was doing.

So, anyway, art is percolating. It’s yet another form of creativity, and one I’ll explore more fully–someday (ah…that mythical ‘someday’)

In the meantime, I’ve been working on the beginning chapters of the paranormal mystery, code name Angel. I’m hoping to have this written in a month or so. Once I hit the ‘writing mode’, it goes quickly. But, I can’t exist at that level of output all the time. They say, if you write, you must write every day. It took me years to figure out “how” I work. I finally decided, “I’m not a writer every day.” Nor am I a musician or filmmaker. I just take it as it comes. There are those who would say that my approach is wrong. But, it works for me. There’s not one rule or method for being a writer. Everyone has a different process.

Wishing you peace and happiness in all the areas of your lives.