It Has Been A Week

 Yes, I'm aware I've only made it to Wednesday thus far. I managed to redesign both covers in the first two books of the Zoey series (under the name Aspen Faraway).

I wanted to modernize them a bit since the previous covers were hand-drawn by me. The previous ones featured a handpainted city beneath handwritten font I did in Procreate. Let's just say it didn't come out exactly as I'd wanted. It took me forever to get around to designing new covers for them, but not of course before someone bought a copy of each with the older covers.

These are the older covers:

I decided to spruce up the covers since I've been working on the outline for book 3 in the series. But, I cannot get to that until I finish the illustrated project I'm working on. And then I have a middle grade series I want to write. I've written the first book already, but want to do some illustrations for the beginning of each chapter and through the longer chapters.

So, needless to say, my work is cut out for me for the next two years. I have a mile-long list of book ideas that I cannot keep up with. My brain keeps coming up with new ideas but my fingers can only type so fast! For the record, I can type 2000 words per hour if I know what I want to say. Usually, I do.

From 2012 to about 2018, I would regularly write 50k words in a week, just writing around the clock. That's how I write though. I cannot pace myself. I just have an on/off switch. I'm either eat-breathe-sleep the book, or want to do absolutely nothing.

Being a procrastinator does not help. For instance, at this very moment, I should be finishing up some illustrations for a picture book but here I am, writing this.

I've decided to go back to writing here more often. I will try at least several times a week. Maybe daily.  At least daily is a goal, like a daily diary.

For people who have been following my writing career since around 2012, you know how I've struggled with blogging. I have been unable to do it. I think I can do better now.

It's nearly 1 a.m. and I've just finished my long-forgotten cold cup of coffee that I'd made about five hours ago. I suppose it's time to head to bed so I can wake up in the morning and get back to the thing I'm most excited about. Starting a brand new novel!