Multi-Tasking Blues

Get out of your multi-tasking blues. Do not do it. Leave it behind. Even Dr. Axe speaks out against it, in the name of focus. Contemplation and indecision rule when multiple tasks are set before you. Particularly if you are on your own, with no support structure to tie into. Sometimes it gets so bad I just go outside and start pulling weeds.

The garden is a work in progress. I may end up a farmer.

So I completely clear my desk, then lay out a single project to work on for the day. Whether it be my notebooks and computer for writing, or some trace paper for designing, the two processes will never again share the same space or partition of daylight.

The weekend retail sales business I feel holds both my wife and I back, but we need the money. It breaks my flow of thought.

It is actually easier for me to post here mid-month. The first of the month holds its own pressures and I have to just let it go.

I am working to illustrate the back cover myself for the print addition of the original Chuck Hammer. After that is out, nothing but new work; a volume of short stories to quickly follow.

Farming doesn’t sound so bad.

Thanks for reading.

Still

Sorry for the lateness of my post. The eyewear still isn’t right. I went back in today and the adjustment seemed to have helped but only time will tell. I have a lawyer waiting in the wings to put out Letters of Demand if I should need to get the lenses corrected yet again. Not having the proper prescription slows my writing endeavors tremendously, not having the proper reading vision in the case of my old pair of glasses. The progressive lenses are good when looking from note book to the computer screen, but I may get a second pair of no line bifocals, something more appropriate for sporting activities, something with those collapsible hinges.

But from life we can create original stories. (it took two months to get the eyewear I have now, see previous post)

A man, after dealing with millenials for six months (or a year), not being able to get a proper prescription for his glasses goes underground. He remakes himself, gets a job at the lab that kept screwing him and showers his fellow employees, all millenials, with praises over their ineptitude, driving the company to discord and failure.

Then on to the next target, and when his devious kindness drives someone to suicide he just cannot stop. Business to business, any company that has ever slighted him in the least, he goes. An investigator, put onto the case of a suicide by a family member, finds a few more deaths and links them to the man of the hour.

Eventually the man is in custody. Accused of killing through suicide by destroying people’s careers, the man responds, “All I did was tell them how great they were until they realized that they weren’t great at all. Is that a crime?”

He escapes and you have a fugitive storyline. Yes I am talking about a series. Part “The Fugitive” part “Dexter” part “Perry Mason” (because we have to find the real criminal. Let us say one of those suicides turns out to be murder and the man of the hour didn’t do it) and part “The Pretender”.

Then the investigator, digging deeper, finds many young millenials praising the man of the hour for waking them up and making them better human beings. Now we have part “The Incredible Hulk”, the series. The man wanders, having to face his own demons as with no place to rest, forced to wander, he cannot hide the torments of his mind in routine and familiarity.

$20,000 if any of you broadcast types want to use the storyline, and I will consult on and provide input for the storyline for the first season. If it is a success we will negotiate my fee for the following seasons.

Or you can keep making movies into television series. That will show them you are truly creative. I can do some of the writing also for an extra fee, but I am working on several stories much closer to my heart right now.

I have to try people.

So you can draw creativity from your daily life. Making old storylines (because they have all been told somehow before) original, creative and inspiring by putting your life’s twist into it and making it contemporary to the times. If it is really done well it becomes an eternal classic, when you connect with that universal experience we all share.

Thank you for reading.

Eye Wear

I have been making consistent progress on my books. Then, I went to the eye doctor and respectively ordered some new prescription eye wear. They made a big difference in the enjoyment, and the pace of my work in notebook and the computer. I shall have a major update next month.

But when I attempted to drive in my new eye wear the road was but a blur. I could not adjust the frame’s position on my nose to accomplish proper distance vision on my new progressive lenses. So back to Lens Crafters where the motto is “The customer is always wrong.” this is not just my experience but what my wife found via the Internet in reviews of the company. I wont go into detail here, but if they do not do the job right the first time just ask for your money back right away, or they will just keep messing with you. ( they are called millennials)

Going back to my old eye wear, as I wait for new eye wear from Meijer Optical, the strain is doubly troubling now and I have not accomplished much in this past week.

Definitely proper prescription lenses are important if you are trying to read or write. It had been six years since my last eye exam and I am now determined to get my eyes checked at least once every two years. It makes a difference in productivity no matter what you are doing at a desk.

Thank you for reading.

Across the Board

I did not finish my latest book of short stories. But I have made significant advances across the board. Advances on several stories, on much needed work on our home, some side endeavors including garden planning and we completed all our tax filings for 2016, finding ourselves better off than we expected.

With the tax burden off my mind, a soon to be acquired new pair of glasses (the protective coatings on my old glasses have begun to deteriorate) and some support from my wife to keep to my schedule and all should be good.

I went to a palm reader at the casino. The casino had a variety of fortune tellers free to their constituents for Mardi Gras. She was spot on about several things and accurate on everything else but most of all vary positive and bright. Made me feel I had a lot to be grateful for. Well,… she said my books would sell if I actually finished them. And also that I am a wonderful man.

Who knew?

Still Writing

Could I complete my next volume of short stories and have them out for editing by the end of the month?

I have a schedule. If I stick to it and write at night I may make it. then I will see what the consultants/editors will cost and I may need to be off to the poker tables to procure the funds.

Yes, I missed the first of the month post. That only means you need only wait two weeks now for my next. Stay tuned.