Fall, the busiest season?
Well September is nearly over now, and I’m perplexed as to how that happened. Wasn’t it April just last week? What the heck.
I’ve got SO much to do!
The AuthorNation 2025 event is looming, and I have to submit my slide deck for my presentation next week. It is nearly done, but I’m still gonna stress about it, and you can’t stop me! I love giving presentations, and this will be a fun one, but slide decks are such a pain in the ass. Meanwhile, I still need to buy plane tix, something I have not done in literally decades. Didn’t AAA used to handle all of this? *cries into coffee*
My secret penname project continues, and Dragon’s Grail #2 has wrapped. My next goal is to get Dragon’s Grail book one and two published as books, and line up the schedule for posting #3 (The Dukes of Odwedo) on Bibliotheca.
Yes, Transmigrated Teri is on hiaitus for a bit, but it should be fired up again before the end of the year. I hope!
Personal Projects Management (PPM)
I don’t talk about it enough, but I designed a project management method for individuals and solopreneurs. It can be used with apps or paper planners, and is meant to be both flexible and comprehensive. It uses basic project management principles to help you get on top of everything you need and/or want to do!
I’m talking about it now because as we head into the 4th quarter of 2025, I’m redoing my own PPM system. It’s a lot! But necessary. I’ve got so many amazing things planned for the rest of this year and 2026! …too many? Probably. But that’s what PPM was designed for!
Weekly Round Up
A bit thin on the ground, reporting-wise, as a lot of stuff is still in the production stage:
KimBooYork.net upgrade: If you haven’t visited my revamped author site, kimbooyork.net, now is a good time to do so! I just ordered a bunch of copies of my dragon shifter romantasy, The Queen’s Aerie, to take to AuthorNation 2025, which made me realize I have not even shared the overhauled site with you all yet!
The Skeptic’s Inspirational continues! Daily bites of motivation, inspiration, and reflections suitable for everyone, no matter your spiritual or philosophical approach to life. I plan to create a book out of all the posts, which will hopefully be out before the first of the year.
The Bastards of Yumeng Chapter 67: This story took a break over August, for obvious reasons, but is back up and running! It’s hit 130,000 words and Yanli’s motley crew of underestimated cultivators is still going strong! (This fanfiction is a WIP and is in the 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) / 魔道祖师-墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī fandom, free to read over on AO3!)
Flashback
What is intuition? Can it be trained and improved? These are questions I address in this essay from June, where I talk about the intersections of creativity, experience, imagination, and trusting yourself.
The Secret Sauce for Writers
If you can’t provide conscious reasoning for your understanding, do you understand it at all? Or is it a timing issue: you understand something before you can explain it? But then is that not just akin to justification?
Walking Alone
I walked Keely every single day, twice a day, for 9 years. Rolling out of bed to go for a walk is now baked into my psyche, so instead of fighting it, I decided to just keep going.
I don’t have Keely pacing me, so I started challenging myself with duration and speed, and now I walk three miles almost every morning! What most people don’t know is that North Florida, especially Tallahassee, is rather hilly. I mean, for Florida! These are not steep foothills or anything! But hills there be, and here is one of them, caught when I got out late one morning so was there to watch the sunrise:
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