Category: Thoughts
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Focusing on Happiness—Week Forty-Seven
What’s making me happy this week: having a new Scifi novella available for pre-order!
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Focusing on Happiness—Week Forty-Six
What’s making me happy this week: room to breathe. I think it’s pretty apparent that I’ve been really, really busy for the past two years (actually, it’s more like three, with stuff going on behind-the-scenes). I had a vision for where I wanted my writing to be, and was intensely focused on getting there.
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Focusing on Happiness—Week Forty-Five
What’s making me happy this week: new connections. I love connecting with other people who love books. I’ve been taking more time to read, and posting reviews as I can for works I really enjoyed.
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Treat it Like a Joy
When we research how to make a living as a writer, people talk about being serious about our writing and treating it like a job. We hear that writers need to defend our writing time. We need to take our work seriously so that others will as well. We need to connect to the right…
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Focusing on Happiness — Week Forty-Four
What’s making me happy this week: Summer’s beauty. I’m taking a few moments to catch my breath, reflect, and move forward. Wishing you peace and happiness.
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Reviews Don’t Have to be Fancy
The only thing I love more than writing books is talking about writing books 🙂 Really, my favorite thing to talk about is stories in general. Nothing gets under my skin and into my heart quite like stories told through books. I want to know what friends are reading and why. What they love and…
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Focusing on Happiness — Week Forty-Three
What’s making me happy this week: tying up loose ends (see what I did there? 😉 ). Writing is a lot of fun, and I enjoy pretty much every part of creating a book and publishing it. It still feels really good to wrap up projects—and I’m wrapping up quite a few! I’ve received the…
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Focusing on Happiness — Week Forty-Two
What’s making me happy this week: a rising word count ❤ The sixth novella is coming together so quickly! I had a feeling that it would, but the word count is going up even faster than I anticipated.
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Happy Anniversary, Publishing Career!
Two years ago today, my first book was published and the world of Summer Park was born—along with my publishing career.
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Focusing on Happiness—Week Forty-One
What’s making me happy this week: calendars. Seriously, I had no idea what day it was until about three minutes ago. I blame the holiday 🙂 And, of course, I’m also happy that I finished the first draft of the next Department of Homeworld Security novella!
Cassandra Chandler 