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16,000 words. Making steady progress. 🙂

Monochrome Dream Pre-Order

Hello, everyone!

My book, Monochrome Dream, is available for pre-order on Amazon!

Make sure you have the kindle-app installed on your phone, tablet, or PC. The book will be released on April 30th, and print versions of the book will eventually be available as well. I will let you know!

Here is the link to pre-order!

Cursebreak #2: Making time for breakfast!

Unless you’re lucky, you probably forego breakfast most times. You’re running late. You’re just not hungry. You don’t want to wake up that early. There’s no good breakfast food in the house. You don’t really care much for breakfast food.

They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but it’s kind of hard to see it that way, especially if you’re like me and went most of junior high and high school without breakfast, and turned out fine. As I’m getting older, I’m starting to see why it’s necessary. On mornings when I’m free, I’m not as reluctant to work on my writing if I get a little something to eat beforehand. Naturally, if you’re not thinking about being hungry, you’re going to be more attentive.

Since your stomach shrinks while you’re asleep, it’s kind of hard to eat like a king, even though that’s what everyone tells you to do. And you know what, if you’re not feeling it, then don’t force yourself. But you should get at least a little something in your belly to get your metabolism going, and take snacks with you. You may not be hungry now, but you will be later, and you don’t want to start relying on fast food to get you by.

Although skipping breakfast on some mornings won’t kill you, if you want to keep yourself and your writing healthy, you need to make time for breakfast. This might mean you have to wake up earlier or go to bed earlier. If you can do this, go for it, I recognize not everyone can go to bed any sooner because of work.

I won’t make a huge, long-winded post about this, so here’s a sweet, short list for how to breakfast. Keep these things in mind next time you’re at the grocery store.

1. You should have small, portable foods or foods you can eat within a minute or two for when you’re in a rush, like yogurts, hot pockets, boiled eggs, or bananas.
2. If you’re planning on being away from home for most of the day, but don’t have time to cook in the morning, bring a few snacks with you. Pack a lunch if you have time, and eat something from number 1.
3. Have food in the fridge for when you have plenty of time to cook and eat, like ingredients for omelets, or steak for steak and eggs. Maybe even anchovies with garlic sauce if you have non-traditional breakfasts. However you do it!
4. For when you have some time to spare, but not too much: oatmeal, cold cereal, fried egg, microwaved bacon, apples, etc.
5. If you can, plan your meals ahead of time. Have apples/pineapples/etc. sliced and ready to go the night before. Pack your lunch the night before so you’re not scrambling to get ready the next morning. If you insist on it being uber fresh, wake up a little earlier to do this. Plan accordingly!
6. Always start your day with water.
7. If you’re a coffee or tea drinker, when you wake up, set it all up and have it brewing while you’re getting ready. By the time you finish getting dressed, brush your teeth, etc., your coffee will be ready.

Snippet Sunday: Don, of Oregon

August 10th, 1994

I’ve decided to keep a journal of sorts. Well, it’s a travel journal, and I suppose I ought to record what happens to me in the places I go. Well, I’m still in the same place I’ve been for twelve years. Although, something peculiar happened. I got a phone call from a friend I haven’t seen in, well, since high school, really. Can you believe that?

I was actually rather curious as to why he wanted to see me, specifically. I don’t even know if I should tell you, but, well, it’s not like anyone else is going to read this. We talked for quite a while, mostly catching up, but he invited me on a trip to Oregon. I wish I could say it was for vacation, but it’s for something much… greater, if that’s the proper term to use. He said I was just the guy for the job, whatever that means. He hasn’t told me much yet about it, but here I sit in the airport terminal, waiting for the six-hour layover to pass me by.

It’s been raining all day. How dreary. Looks like there’s more where I’m headed.

To be frank, I’m actually rather glad to be getting out of town. I didn’t really notice it for a while, but people have slowly stopped talking to me. I used to have plenty of friends, and I used to visit my family quite often. Now… besides that phone call, it’s been a while since I’ve talked to anyone, really. Maybe they’ll start to miss me after being out of town for a few days.