Good morning, fellow sentient beings. Welcome to another coddiwomple through my addled brain.
Anyway, here’s my latest comic page for your enjoyment.
I gotta say, this week has gone by in a blur. A lot of very exciting things are happening to me right now that I don’t know if I can get into at the moment. Seems like I’m in the middle of a whirlwind of events.
In that vein, I want to talk a little about mental health. Yeah, I know; this topic comes up a lot with the whole “self care” thing, but as a creative person, I know that my fellow creatives often don’t take care of their mental state the way that they should. I know I don’t. Anxiety and stress are real threats to one’s well-being, so here are some things I’ve found that help keep my mind at ease:
Take a break from social media.
Take a walk outside.
Exercise frequently.
Practice martial arts.
Don’t bury your thoughts and emotions, but observe them like watching a leaf floating down a stream.
Forgive yourself for your mistakes.
Say kind things to yourself.
This a short list, but it’s helped me quite a bit. I may expand it into a full article for my paid subscribers later so they can look it over and gain some benefit from it. If you’re not a paid subscriber, that’s an easy fix; just hit the button below and for just $7/month, you can get even more content, such as artwork, podcasts, stories and more!
In other news, I’m making steady progress on my novella, THE FALL OF EMRYS. I think it’s coming along well so far and I hope to have it out sometime this summer. I wish I had more to reveal than that. Sometimes it seems like the characters take control of the plot and you just have to hang on. I think that’s the best feeling. It’s almost like the story writes itself. I get in the “The Zone” and everything just falls into place. I’ll have a lot of editing to do when this is done, but that’s not a bad thing; in fact, I’d consider it normal.
In related news, I now have a story podcast for my Walter Ulric mysteries, and I’d appreciate it if you’d do me the favor of subscribing. I hope to have more episodes out in the near future.
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Anyway, that’s all for today. I hope you all have a great week and I’ll see you again soon!