This week is one of those milestones in my life. It isn't a big one, at least no certificates or fireworks to herald its coming, but meaningful for my personal goals over the last fifteen years. Our youngest is finally out of daycare. That means I can move to the next step which is use the money we needed for daycare to reduce our debt and reduce our financial risk. I'm guessing that this will take about two years.
Naturally, just the hint of having more money meant everything started breaking down including the dishwasher giving up the ghost, a car bumper almost falling off, a kitchen light burning out, and a slew of other expenses. On the other hand, they thankfully waited until we could afford to handle them, so it is just one more thing.
Debt is a nasty thing. It is expensive to carry it but it is also very difficult to get out from underneath it once you get into the hole. To dig oneself out, it requires a discipline I don't always have and a lot of patience (years in this case).
Related to that, I want to get a book out but I shouldn't. I have two that are effectively done now (Flight of the Scions[1] and Second-Hand Dresses[2]) with a third (Raging Alone[3]) that should be done by end of year. They all require at least one editor round.
1: https://fedran.com/flight-of-the-scions/
2: https://fedran.com/second-hand-dresses/
3: https://fedran.com/raging-alone/
My updated plans are to publish either Flight of the Scions or Second-Hand Dresses in time for ICON[4] in 2021. Then one or two books in 2022.
The idea of two to three years is one of the frustrating part. I don't want to wait so long to get a book out but that is how my priorities go. As I mentioned before, a lot of my focus on tasks comes from something I read in Reader's Digest a long time ago.
You have time for only three things in your life. It may be family, work, or a hobby. Pick those three and don't worry about the less.
The above quote is paraphrased with the haze of decades. My three things are: family, work, and writing.
I'm still planning on posting a chapter every week at fedran.com[5]. I've been doing that for four years now and it's becoming a thing.
On the other hand, I not going to update d.moonfire.us[6] with the chapter announcements. When I was always working on a single piece at a time, it was easy to set up announcements between the two. However, with the self-doubt of Raging Alone and my Pride Month[7] challenge, that got disrupted and I don't think it's worth the energy to maintain inconsistent schedules on two sites. The Fedran website will always have the chapters.
7: /blog/2019/06/01/pride-month/
Speaking of Pride Month, I finished it but it was tight. I ended up writing four stories but one of them got switched to serializing weekly to give me a bit of breathing room (and it was much longer):
8: https://fedran.com/let-his-memory-go/
9: /blog/2015/10/28/sand-and-ash-13/
10: https://fedran.com/sand-and-ash/
11: https://fedran.com/may-i-lead-this-dance/
12: https://fedran.com/second-hand-dresses/
13: https://fedran.com/prospects-of-love-among-mages/
14: https://fedran.com/coins-for-your-troubles/
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