A Splintered Mind

I recently came upon an old note where I'd recorded a nightmare. Apparently, I was cleaning, organizing, and fixing my life in this dream. It sounds like a wonderful dream, right⸮ Soon, the landlord and some workers came over. At first, I was immensely relieved that I had already been organizing my apartment. Here it was! Clean and ready for company. I felt great. The mundane quickly became the stuff of nightmare, however. They needed to get access to an area that I hadn't cleaned yet. I started feeling anxiety and frustration as they moved things out of the way. Someone else was organizing my place! Then they handed me a stack of sticky notes that they taken off of something that they needed to work on. I thought, “I can handle this,” but then I noticed the sticky notes were loaded with things still left to do. They were all now jumbled around, and I realized it would take some time to sort through all of them, but the workers were needing me to move other things out of...

Ever find your ADHD focusing on everything that irritates you? Today’s (long) article shows how that happened to me on a large scale recently. Fortunately, training, humor & hyperfocus helped me stay on topic. Read on! I had a big week two weeks ago! So big, it wiped me out about 10pm last Wednesday. Oh, wait. No, sorry. That’s when the flu hit me like a cement truck with wings. I thought perhaps I had just worked really hard and needed to sleep sitting up with the TV remote in my hand. I was like Rip Van Winkle sleeping the sleep of ages, except I recall the Brownie coming in and scolding me for waking her up because I was making too much noise. Funny how we don’t breathe well with our necks bent at 90°. The big event that week was a guest speaker spot I had at Carol Lynch Williams’ novel writing class. Carol knows me from writing seminars a few years back. She was discussing indy publishing with her class and invited me & my editor to discuss our collaborati...

I'd like to get my book into my local Salt Lake County Library as well as other libraries. Since my book is carried by Overdrive —which most libraries support for ebook loans—I thought this would be easy. I've even thought of donating copies. Unfortunately, the only way to accomplish get the book listed with my library is to request a purchase. Meaning, I can't submit a copy to the library for their consideration as I could with a physical book. OK, I think. This isn't a problem. I'm an indy publisher and have been doing everything myself already, so I fired up the browser and got ready to type. That's when I realized I'd have to officially request a book purchase with my name and library card number for a book that I wrote. Suddenly, I felt very silly. While I was sitting there convincing myself that it was silly to feel silly, it occurred to me that other people might want this book in their library, too, but they wouldn't have any idea how to go...