I’ve been in the doldrums lately. I know I’m not the only writer fighting what seems like a futile battle. How do we get people to buy our books? How do we not get depressed when we don’t sell our books? What gives us the oomph to keep writing? It would be so easy to just…stop. All the inspiratonal quotes is the world, all the coffee, all the kicking my own arse…? Yeah. I got nuttin’ honey. Then the dang Universe drops this into my lap…

Life? I kind of see it like this, Silver:

Second after second, illusion after illusion, miracle after miracle… an unending parade of opportunities to catch yourself in the act of creating.

Gotcha!
The Univers
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P.S. Here comes one now, Silver…

And there one came. Actually two. Unable to get motivated yesterday, I spent waaay too much time on X. I got sucked back into a protracted conversation that invovled multiple people. It started with a thing sold by Skims, a Kardashian company. Don’t ask. Trust me. You do NOT want to know. Anyway, the discussion somehow devolved into romance novels and then picked back up today with Fabio. I don’t know why. While being an active participant, I’d totally missed the whole train. Anyway. One of the gals, bought one of my books. At least I think it was her. I mentioned THAT OL’ BLACK MAGIC to her and that’s the book I sold. So…I sold a book! The second thing occurred after I reposted an announcement of a soon to be released album of Celtic music from an musician I’ve followed since I joined the old tweetybird. And yes, he followed me too. He just released an album and I added it to my Spotify lists. One of his songs will be on Ariel’s playlist. But that’s only a side note. Another X person liked my repost and asked if I’d ever listened to Blackmoor’s Night. I hadn’t so I checked them out and ended up on a song titled “No Second Chance.” Yikes! Just like that, I had a scene. Not written yet, it’s settling into place but it has a place–an important one–in Ariel and Aisling’s relationship.

So, there it is. No matter how discouraged we get, we truly need to keep our senses open to inspiration winging in from unlikely places. I’m back to writing again. And y’all have permission to kick my arse or surprise me in…well…surprisng ways! Now get out there and create!