Getting Ready To Launch New Blog

It appears I’m ready to begin a newer, more polished and “pretty” version of my At Spiral’s End site. I’ve been looking around for the best place to launch a new blog, and I think Strikingly is the one I’m going to go with! They have a good blogging platform, but I can use it to promote my books eventually (and even sell them — you can sell 1 item for free on the site) and keep my readers updated on everything, so I’m won’t have Patreon as my only promotional site.

I’m also creating a new schedule to keep me focused. Three days a week for several hours a day I MUST be working on my paranormal blogs, or transcribing hypnosis sessions, or drawing or making maps or houseplans that illustrate more clearly my experiences. Whatever-! As long as I’m spending the bulk of 3 days a week working on these goals, I’ll see much faster turn-around times. I’ve been working on writing down these experiences for nearly 10 years now, I think I need to move faster. I feel guilty as it is that I get $200 a month from people who haven’t seen a lot of new content (or polished older content) from me for so long because it’s been one crisis after another for years now. I’m tired of being sidelined by every damned thing.

Does this mean I’ll be meeting my personal goals every week? Maybe not. I can still have flares that last several days in a row that won’t allow for it. However, it is very rare for me to have more than 3 or 4 days a week of flares. That means I have plenty of days I could be working more. Unfortunately, I got so used to habit patterns for soothing myself from dealing with various crises that my work levels are just not up to snuff anymore. I’m hoping to at least reverse that trend and even 1 or 2 days of writing or focusing on my paranormal blogs will surely push me further along than the snail’s pace I’m currently at. But I can’t stand this any more! I’ve GOT to get moving on this. I’m driving myself bonkers at this point.

AND if I do keep to a semi-regular work schedule, that means I’ll feel like I’m allowed to relax and/or play and stop feeling so guilty I can’t enjoy anything anymore. I NEED to do this, and so I’m just… going to do it.

Getting oddly compulsive about a goal is how I get good habits. Like my weird need to have almost a blog post per day on the personal level– not much short term, but long term I’ve really got thousands and thousands of pages of content of me just talking about myself. Impressive, but I had to have a weird “pull” emotionally to keep to it. And after I’m all caught up on my personal blog, I always feel better. That keeps me at it. But no mistake, I sometimes need something a little crazy to keep me focused, because otherwise I’m prone to just jumping from project to project all willy-nilly.

I let my Patrons know what I’m up to at Patreon, so I’m committed!