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Learning Curves
My Publishing Challenge Is Forcing The Learning… And to be honest, I am loving it. I have gone from a good dozen things to learn or relearn down to two major areas left. Learning is scary and exciting and rewarding and so much more. Especially when it concerns my own work getting fixed and out. With every book, every new thing learned, I get more and more excited. And the more stuff I get cleaned up from past years of neglect and sheer incompetence, the more excited I get as well. Being afraid of learning puzzles me. Sure, I have felt the fear of the unknown. Got that. Fear of…
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Update on My 70 in 70 Challenge
Got a Shot at Making It!!! Not kidding. I might very well actually publish 70 major books in my 70th year on the planet. Kris and everyone at WMG Publishing is super supportive of this crazy idea, and have been from the start last November. And amazingly I have not forgotten the challenge, sort of just kept at it. At the moment I have 52 books published this year so far with 2.5 months left to go. (I consider major books as any book with my name on the cover. Novel, novella, collection, or anthology where I edited it. I also considered an omnibus a major book but am not…
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Ramping Back Up Exercise
Got So Crazy Busy, I Let It Slide… Also had some blood blisters that I kept making worse (wrong shoes, fixed that problem). So finally today I got back up to 4 miles, and will keep that and ramp up a little more to 5 miles plus a day starting Monday. Then in a few weeks after that ramp up to six miles a day minimum. (Starting a streak.) Also starting Monday cutting back to 1,200 to 1,500 calories, with a lot of protein to start dropping a few of the winter and injury pounds. Like a lot of us, I have gained a few pounds since the marathon in…