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Afterburners
This year started off with a bang, work-wise. Makes an interesting counterpoint to the rather relaxing No-Monday policy of November and December. For now, I’ve seriously got to punch it because the work is piling up…
Sleep…Frenzy…Eat…Repeat
Beware the barrenness of a busy life. ~Socrates
Better busy than laid off but it’s making the time go ridiculously fast with no perceived accomplishment.
I came up with a way to keep track of everything but it just highlights how little progress I’m making on them.
Oh well, that’s work for you…
Multitasking
The Flash-S1E4-Barry does multitasking
Not only am I juggling dozens of assignments with multiple complex steps each at work, I’ve still got to get back to The Sentinels.
Fortunately, I did get Holly and Ivy up on Amazon before the 12th Day of Orthodox Christmas, but even that was a spiderweb of things to do.
I had to:
- make the book cover
- format the interior text
- upload both to Amazon
- add the compiled work to my Holiday Season Serial Romances paperback series
- create the 3D cover
- add that to the Holly and Ivy Thank You page
- and to the sidebar widget on Christmas All The Time
That’s done, complex though it was.
The stuff I have to do at work is much the same. Once it’s done (for the most part), it wll be done and I’ll have a boatload of other new stuff to do.
Achieving Flow
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Lao Tzu
One of the big drawbacks to being ridiculously busy is that it has the tendency to make one feel harried, hurried and frazzled.
I’ve done this sort of thing before.
It’s not the first time I’ve been insanely behind schedule with a ton of stuff to catch up on.
What I have to remember is to get myself into flow state.
A big part of that is listening to music. The right tunes can help me keep all the plates spinning.
The right tunes can also set the mood for storytelling.
When I was writing Holly and Ivy, it was Christmas music that helped me get in the zone so I could relay the events in Wyoming Pass for you.
For superhero storytelling? Who knows? I’ll have to find something that gets me in the correct place.
Right now, I’m just too darned tired to do much of anything.
The only hump in this Hump Day is an excess of acquired weariness. Time to get some shut-eye and get back to work…