my journey as a civil war novel writer

Sorry for the long absence. I promise to do better in the future. The last couple of months I hav e not been in the mood for blogging. I had to do so much writing for the counseling website that I did not feel much like writing here. And then there was the text f or the leaflet to make and the cards and..... At one time I was doing way too much again and had to cut back. My coach had to tell me twice. As a result I did nearly nothing for two weeks, just recuperating a bit and enjoying myself with watching the Tour de France. S ome people found it bo ring this year but I enjoyed the first and the third week very much. In the past I was never an Armstrong fan but I love rooting for the underdog so this year I did enjoy watching him and cheering for him. I think it is a great achievement to stop for 3 years and then come back at this high level and be third in this year's tour. Very good! Now that I am not so tired anymore I am doing a bit better physically. Had another nice chat wi...

My head is finally still again. This week was a huge learning proces. Afterwards you can look back at it and smile, but when you are in the middle.... I got sucked back into all the old traps I thought I had left behind me for good. Working too much the last two weeks. And because e-mails kept coming in, I kept answering and not relaxing even after I promised my coach I would do so. I did make little steps. Reviewed the scedule and to the dates and enddate off. Now every week I will look at it and select some tasks I think I can finish that week and if I don't finish them... tough! That took some getting used to. I am great at sticking to scedules, and fairly proud of it. But my body doesn't like it very much and I did make my body a promise, back to keeping it now. I also cleared some of the clutter in my room. Untill about two years ago I couldn't throw anything out even if I could sell it. I was attached to every book, cd, piece of junk I ever bought. When my rooms becam...

Sorry guys for not posting much at the moment. The setting up of the practice and especially the design of the website are taking a lot out of me and not leaving much time for other writing. I had to promise my job coach to take it easier yesterday as I am falling into my old stress trap again. But I am realising it earlier and this whole process is teaching me a lot about what I shouldn't do in the future. So viewing it positive and learning. The blog will pick back up in the furure, I promise!

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I am having difficulty finishing a historical novel. Not even that it is badly written, the style is good and I have read books by this writer before and liked them. But I am not enjoying child of the phoenix by Barbara Erskine. The plot is sooooo ridiculous that I have to force myself to keep reading. It centers around Ellen, the daughter of Llewelyn the great. I have stated before that her parents are badly depicted and I disliked that already. But the plot!!!! Ellen married twice, first to the earl of Chester, a man she did not marry, second with Robert de Quincy, a poor knight, the second was a marriage of love that lasted untill her death. In this book they have de Quincy die before her, besides he is depicted as a monster and it is not a happy marriage. And then she has an affair with the kind of Scotland and is later abducted and forced to marry another scottish nobleman. It is absurd!!!! I mean if you want to write nonsense, just invent characters and then you can do what you w...

Sorry for being so slow at the moment. I have to warm you that this can continue for a while. April and May are not my best months. I always feel the ending of winter and haven't built enough new reserves with sun hours yet. It means I tire easier, have to cut down my out of the house activities and grind my teeth about it because in my head i want it all. :) At the moment I have an additional problem. After about 8 months on the laptop I switched back to using the computer. it has a lot of advantages, more space, more applications and I can concentrate better on my work for the practice as I can read my notes next to me and am not hampered with having the laptop on my lap all the time. But... strangely enough I am having way more pain in my arms and shoulders working on the laptop. They always say laptops are an ulhealthy way to work, yet the last 8 months I had less pain [not headaches but certainly arms and shoulders] how can this be. Everything is set up according to ergnomical...

It's been an up and down week healthwise. Loads of headaches, maybe that was to be expected after everything that happened last week. Workwise I have been busy with my coach on wednesday and ITC specialist today. Both meetings were very usefull and gave me a good feeling. Tomorrow I start going over the texts of my website again and my logo designer is working on the new logo for safe haven coaching. On the reading front I finished men of the otherworld, other books had to wait and that doesn't happen to me often. They don't get much better then this. Also started in another Anne Bishop novel. I really love that series, very strong characters, lots of brooding and romance but not so high on sex. Just what I like.