Monday 26th July 2021

It’s taken a bit of work but I feel I’m slowly getting everything moving.  No matter how on top I’ve felt the last few months, there was always something that I had On Hold.  But now, I feel like all my projects are moving along and I just need to make sure I get them rolling enough that any disruptions to my schedule doesn’t derail me.

For example, The Climb is now back up to date.  It’s taken a bit of work but the entire backlog of editions has been published.  Likewise on The Accursed, writing is going well and today I passed 100,000 words on this draft.  I even manged over 2000 words in a single sitting for the first time since the pandemic (I think).   There’s still a bit to do but I feel I’m building that momentum.

I’ve not publicized this because of Twitter suspending my account, but I did some work to move that along.  I need to come up with a plan pretty quick as I hope to have a couple of videos up in the next day or so, including one announcing my new projects.

I’ve also broken the back on a piece of work on a top secret commercial project and now hoping to get a lot of progress on that now.  I also did some research into habit trackers.

My secret for today was to take these big projects that have seemingly been stalled and ask myself, what’s the smallest amount of work I can do to move this forward… and then did that.  Sometimes that’s all that’s needed; just a small nudge.

All this despite starting pretty late.  I had some very weird dreams last night and slept a lot later than I have for ages.  I’m not entirely sure why, but I’ve been sleeping a healthy 8 hours for the last few months and then today did 10.  And it wasn’t just one weird dream, it was like 3… all of which I remembered.  My dreams often seem to feel like trying to catch steam with a sieve, and I usually only get left with bits and pieces.  Instead, I had three fully blown dreams.   And weirdly they all featured people from Facebook, some I’ve not seen for years

Usually I can trace back how people got into my dreams.  I’ve either interacted with them or talked to them over the course of the previous day, yet here…. I’ve not even thought about them.

Still, as weird as the dream was both in concept and construction, if 10 hours with weird dreams gets me the productivity I had today, I’d gladly do it all again.

The trick is to not let everything fall to pieces the moment there’s a small hiccup.  I say this, yet I know the moment does come along I’ll be halting everything while I wait for a fix.  I need to train myself out of that habit but I’m not sure how I’d even begin to go about doing it.

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