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Hello friends!

I'd like to remind all my Telepath patreons + my Substack paid members that today is livestream sprinting day! We've been doing it every Sunday from 6-8 pm Eastern and we get a lot done!

Today I am working on...what? I don't know.

I was talking to my sister Ivy yesterday (the talented artist who did my covers for the Cursed Soul trilogy) and we both shared the same feeling that our once oh-so-disciplined brains have been failing us lately, and that we've been bouncing around between projects--and that maybe nurturing our creative souls is the most thing we can do right now. But we both make our living as creatives, and I've been failing colossally at that lately, so I feel like I should buckle down.

It's just not really working.

Yesterday I was seized with an urge to work on a simple comfort book: the story of Velsa and Grau starting a school for Fanarlem. I've been reading the L. M. Montgomery books and I love how they intertwine little stories of friends and neighbors. It just sounded so fun to write something without a romance structure and spend some time with Velsa.

The only problem is that I'm already deep into three other books! And I love all of them too! The last thing I need is to be teased by a fourth book!

Nevertheless, I just couldn't seem to resist and I wrote the first chapter of this "School for Dolls" project. And today my brain is overflowing with the next chapter, PLUS the other projects I'm working on. It is, quite frankly, a mess. My sense is shaking my sensibility, Just focus on one thing and get a new release out! 

But here we are and I think it must be part of the necessary process. I've been denying myself these characters for years--and they are all such friends! I think that's what it boils down to. You don't want to spend one year with one friend and then the next year with other friends! I want to check in on everyone. I've gone so many years without letting my art also be play, and I need it so, so badly.

So I don't know what I'll work on after lunch today, quite frankly, but that's where we're at!