Take Your Time

So the last few weeks were a whirlwind of changes. From creating this website and my Patreon, making my other social media accounts, creating my logo and the images here on Canva. Then I finished Ace of Wands and Biker Blues. It was… a lot.

Possibly too much.

I crashed this week. Completely. I finished the editing for Wolves and Rain and got only 8/63 chapters into editing Howls and Thunder (because that draft is rough I tell you). To a certain degree, it feels like sliding back. like I’m not keeping up the momentum, but I’ve lived with my ADHD long enough to know what’s actually happening. I’m burning out, and my body and mind are slowing down to avoid it.

So I didn’t get a ton done, but I still got something. That’s one of the biggest lessons I’ve needed to learn while writing. Perfection doesn’t just take time; it takes a product. It takes practice.

Because of that, I’m not calling this week a wash or a break. I still got things done. I made major changes to Wolves and Rain and did some very good editing. I’m finally at a point with it where I’m comfortable letting a stranger read it, so this week, while I edit Howls and Thunder, I’m going to finish the second part of the goal I set last week and find a Beta reader.

I don’t exactly have the funds for a paid editor, but I’ve got a few feelers out in subreddits to try. I’m also putting a few bucks per paycheck towards saving to commission an actual artist for Wolves and Rain. I’ll start with cover art and, if I have funds after that, maybe some promotional art too.

It’s not the update I want to give, but it’s the one I have. Like I said in my last post, I need to be realistic about the situation I’m in. Yeah, I’m creative and I have good ideas, and I like to think my writing is fun and interesting, but writing takes time. Time I don’t always have right now.

But I will. One day.