Oh look, another glorious Monday….

You would think that since Mondays are my admin days, they wouldn’t be so busy. I know that’s what I thought when I came up with my weekly schedule. I wanted to take some pressure off of myself and have my days be less chaotic. I was wrong. Mondays are, in fact, my busiest days of the week, and it’s particularly noticeable today because I am just so darn tired.

Yesterday, we spent the day with my family member, the same one I mentioned in the previous post, who is having life-altering health issues. Due to everything going on with him, they needed to clear out their office so that they have room to store all the medical supplies they will be having delivered next month. Because neither one of them was capable of doing it on time, me, my husband, and the kids headed over there and spent the whole day going through it, from 11am to 430pm. It was a lot of work, but we managed to get all the heavy lifting done and taken care of, and now it will be easier for them to do the rest. However, I did tell them that I would still be available anytime during the week if they needed more help.

I am still trying to settle into this new schedule, too, helping them out as often as possible while still making time to work on my books. For a while after we got back, we were so busy that I wasn’t able to work on them at all. Thankfully, now that things have evened out, I have been able to set aside time to do so, and the next book in the Deal Duet is coming along quite nicely. Yes, I had to completely rework the plot, but I think it came out much better this time.

If I’m being honest here, for a while, I lost my spark, my love of writing. I was feeling overwhelmed and discouraged, and I was actually dreading having to write to the point where I was looking for anything else to do that wasn’t that. It was heartbreaking and only added to that stress. However, after talking with my husband and doing some self-reflection, I was able to remember that I’m not doing this for money or fame. I’m doing this because I love writing and telling stories, and once I was able to separate that from the pressure to make/earn money, I was able to rediscover my love of storytelling.

Maybe that’s why I was able to rework the plot of this book so well and why it’s coming to me so easily again. I don’t know, but I’m not going to question it either. It’s working, and I’m writing; that’s really all that matters right now!

I am also going to be doing a whole bunch of new things, starting with adding a ‘store’ to my website! That is one of the many things I will be working on today. Guess I better go and get started on my massive task list!

Until next time, happy reading!