Middle of January and Busy Just Doesn't Really Describe My Schedule

There is so much happening around the world right now. My own personal area is quite booked up. Most of it is all my own doing. I volunteered to help with the social medial for the Sunshine State Book Festival in Gainesville, Florida which I will also have an author table on February 1st. And I am doing another year of conducting a monthly online writer's marketing seminar for the Writers Alliance of Gainesville.

I am still a semi-volunteer with the First Coast Romance Writers in Jacksonville, Florida and their 2025 schedule is packed with workshops, romance awards, book cover contests and three anthologies. I recently volunteer to help take care of the website and social media for the Northeast Florida Sisters in Crime group out of Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. They have monthly writer workshops that need to be posted on social media and I just realized I volunteered to hold a monthly Writer's Business Workshop for their members.

Finally, I volunteered to do the website updates and social media for the Literary Indulgence Book Festival in Jacksonville, Florida. The organizer for this annual event has agreed to pay me a $100 monthly stipend. This book festival is only in it's second year and the administrator is trying to get it approved to be a non-profit. There is lots of social media posting and changes to the website on this one.

In my person writing I have had to put that on hold for a little bit longer. My editor, 'god bless her', sent me the first round of revisions but I just haven't had time to look at them nor have I saved up the last half of the payment I owe her when she does tehe next round of edits. My brain is just not in that kind of creative mood yet. And I am carrying a full-time course load in college this term. I only have 7 classes to complete for my first bachelor's degree and I am determined to get it done. I guess it is a good thing to have goals but dang I think I have overloaded myself once more.