Category: Thoughts
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The Numbers Game
I sometimes fixate on numbers that are not constructive to my writing. Rankings and ratings, views and followers. This data can be helpful. It can give me valuable insight into how best to connect with my readers. Marketing is all about connecting books with the right people. But ultimately, I can’t control any of those…
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Focusing on Happiness—Week Twenty-One
What’s making me happy this week: the process. It’s a release week, so of course I’m super-happy about my latest title being out in the world. More than that, though, I’m happy because of going through the process of getting it there.
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The Quickening Moon — 2017
This year’s Quickening Moon finds me in a very different frame of mind from last year. There’s no fog, and I seem to have dealt with my winter colds in January (I hope!). Still, I don’t have the extreme focus that I’ve had for the last year and a half with my writing—and it’s a…
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Focusing on Happiness—Week Twenty
What I’m happy about this week: progress. Sometimes you have to make your own path, or dare to use the unlikely ones you find along the way. The important thing for me is to keep moving, to keep finding my way. I’m still figuring out the difference between resting and stopping. When I stop, I…
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Focusing on Happiness—Week Nineteen
What I’m happy about this week: Winter skies and warm bruschetta.
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Multiple Realities
The first story arc in the world of The Summer Park Psychics is completed, but there’s much more in store for that universe. I’m not sure when I’ll be writing those stories, but I know it will happen eventually. Partly because I’m still living with one foot in their world.
Cassandra Chandler 