Massive Move Day

Gaining On It…

The goal is by 1 week from today, when the movers show up, everything will either be in place in this new condo or ready to go to our new storage unit.

Almost no furniture except shelving will go to storage. Just a dining table and chairs, and one desk, but a ton of boxes full of books and files. Basically all our extra author books is the biggest mass. And we will move the digest collection from the other smaller storage unit to this new larger one since the larger one is air conditioned.

So everything needs to be boxed and either upstairs in our new place or ready to be taken out of the door in one week. I think we will make it.

Talked for an hour today on copyright to Kevin’s masters program class. Then went grocery shopping before spending about three hours on move stuff.

WRITING UPDATE

I found it interesting how my attitude changed after I dropped the four books challenge for this month. I had ramped up a Pakhet Jones novel, and I started the novel with a short story. I do that regularly, but with the challenge I felt odd. And getting into the book, I realized I should have started with not one, but three already written short stories. But I didn’t do that with the book in the challenge, but then when I dropped the challenge, I instantly went to look to see if my creative voice was right about the two other short stories. Of course, spot on.

Now letting the challenge limit me in any way was a mistake on my part. I always tell people to just let a story or a book be what it wants to be. Sometimes I even forget my own lessons. (grin)

So I have now blended in three short stories so that they feel like part of the book as I clearly intended to write them that way and am almost done with the entire thing. Once I made my creative voice happy, the story is just flying along. It will still be a little short, but I flat don’t care. I am having fun.