Drunken Owls and Other Delights

Okay, so I think I can finally sign off the Remastered Edition of A Division of Souls (a month early! yay!), which means I can now get back to working on Theadia. Woo! I'm still a bit nervous that I may have forgotten something important like proper formatting or missing a really stupid and obvious typo, but I think I've caught all the ones I'm going to catch this time out. More important however is that I fixed a few minor continuity and clarity issues that had always bothered me.

This of course is going to mean that I'll have to figure out how I'm going to promote this thing. I don't want to just throw it out there and say 'have at it' and get nothing in response. Which means I'll be spending most of August creating different possibilities. I've also pulled the physical copies from Amazon as I no longer want them available there when I can have them done POD through Draft2Digital where all my other novels are. That'll be something for 2026: how to make my works available in physical form through that platform.

Anyhoo, I'm crawling back to normal creativity once again, and that's good enough for me!

Okay, maybe not fitter, but no longer feeling brought down by allergies, so yay me! And more productive, which is a surprise given that I did a TON of personal stuff on my two days off this week. On Monday I did the much-needed laundry which I hadn't had time for last week, but I also finally got rid of two very big boxes. One had contained A's new treadmill and the other our new mini-freezer (more on that in a moment), which were taking up a lot of room. And while I was at it, yesterday I finally took care of that long-delayed trip to Goodwill to get rid of several boxes of books as well as my old printer (they do e-recycling if they can't fix it) and I once again have a floor in Spare Oom! There's only one box left to get rid of -- the one the new printer came in -- but I'm holding onto it for just a tiny bit longer until I know for sure it's working fine.

But that's not all! I'm writing daily entries for 750Words again! Right now I'm kind of taking the easy way out by writing -- again -- about music, going through my digital library and revisiting much of the music I listened to while writing the Bridgetown Trilogy. I'm doing this on purpose to help me focus on the remaster of A Division of Souls, and it's definitely working. I've been trying to restart using that site and been having a tough time getting started in the first place, so this was a perfect kick in the butt that I needed. I'm hoping this will also get me restarted on a few other things I've been meaning to restart as well, like the journaling and other creative outlets.

Oh, and I've installed the Squaredle app on my phone, so that should work as a way to distract me from the internets during my work breaks, heh.

Here's to hoping it works!