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Ain’t It Glorious?!?

Even though we started out the morning with a flat tire, nothing can steal the 🍂 pre–Autumnal Glory 🍂 from this splendid morning.

🍂🤎🧡💛💚🍃 Felt With The Heart 🍃💚💛🧡🤎🍂

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart. ~Helen Keller

While the chill in the air can be felt and the spectacular colors of the changing season can definitely be seen, the true majesty of my favorite season starting a few weeks early can indeed only be felt and appreciated way down deep in my heart.

Likewise, the encroaching chill of 🍂 Autumn 🍂 is bringing my sweet wife closer and closer by the day. In the summertime, my natural release of body heat makes me uncomfortable and not so great to be near. Come the seasons I adore, my role as personal space-heater is easier to appreciate. In short, I’ll be happily cuddling with my beautiful wife until sometime next May when summer’s heat starts plaguing me again.

It’s the little things that make life worthwhile.

Being able to cook dinner in the oven without getting yelled at for making the house even hotter than it already is. C’mon! Sometimes you just need to bake something! Being able to be close to my lovely wife without sweating all over her. Being able to wear clothes that look nice and won’t get saturated with perspiration 5 minutes after you’ve put them on. Goodbye, Summer and good riddance…

Courage

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. ~John Irving

Life is good and getting better all the time. Setting aside the flat tire I had this morning and the freaking ants who are on a mission to ruin a 3rd cup of coffee this morning, I’m really liking life right now.

You’d think the fact that I haven’t written a word in weeks would be frustrating as hell to me.

Okay, it kind of is.

Thing is, I did the prep work to facilitate this kind of inevitable delay. Laptop crash? Long recovery period? Incidental technical glitches? All built into the plan. I know that nothing goes to plan, so I plan for long periods of annoying non-productivity.

That may seem a tad defeatist, but one needs to cope with the inevitable. Nothing ever freaking goes to plan unless the plan allows for all the extraneous crap that happens whether you want it to or not.

So, even though nothing is apparently happening, everything is generally going to plan. I still have plenty of time to write this year’s Holiday Season Serial Romance. I’ve got money coming in from my programming contract to help with the bills and the setup of my self-publishing business. The weather is finally nice.

No more sudden turns required. No radical changes. I can take my time and sculpt my life to the circumstances available. Slow and steady wins the race.

🍂 Happy September 🍂

Happy September Jazz and Bossa Nova
Autumn Jazz Music to Relax

Here’s some lovely music that could put you in the kind of mood I’m feeling with the slightly premature change of season. It’s still in the 40s right now!!! How much better could life even be?

Well, these ants could go back into hibernation but I suppose you can’t have everything…

Primary Condition

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design. ~Charles Eames

In order to create anything, you ideally need a consumer of some kind. Even if it’s only yourself or a member of your family, whatever you’re creating should serve some kind of purpose.

Writing stories because you’re compelled to share your ideas is great, but you still need someone to tell them to. Finding an audience for the kind of stories you’re capable of telling is an important part of the process.

Fortunately, my writing falls into some fairly conventional genres with some conspicuously ravenous audiences.

If the Hallmark Channel is to be believed, people just can’t get enough of cute Christmastime romances.

If Disney+, DCUnlimited and The CW are to believed, people can’t get enough of superhero stories right now.

Sci-Fi and Fantasy have been hot since before The Hobbit hit the shelves and will probably continue to be so for some time to come.

There’s my career in a nutshell.

Holiday romcoms, superheroes, space opera and medieval fantasy will be keeping me busy for the rest of my life.

All I need to do is set up my publishing business correctly and start cranking out wonderful stories. There are technical details I’ll need to learn or hire out, but this is how it’s going to go from here on out. Ain‘t it glorious?!?