Category: Mental Health Blogging
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Formatting My First Book
Been busy formatting my first book for publication. Problem is that while formatting it for Kindle ebook publication, I made changes. I can’t resist editing… So, my Scrivener project is different than my Word manuscript which is now different than what I formatted using Kindle Create. Oh, well. Guess that’s why each published version gets…
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Intent to Write
I intend to write, to complete a draft of memoir.
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California Burns. I Copy and Paste.
As California burns, I pause, having finished copying and pasting my blog posts into Scrivener. Next step is to rewrite multiple overview posts about my mental health journey from age eighteen to now. See book outline as my mental health history, chronological posts worth sharing organized by year and month, with appendix of US mental…
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Blogiversary
Yesterday got my four year anniversary notification from WordPress.com. Still copying and pasting posts into Scrivener for eventual publication as a book. Not all posts will make the cut. Plan to begin with a narrative of my mental health journey starting at eighteen, then chronologically publish my posts that speak from my heart. That’s how…
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Time to Build a Book?
Brief recap of the past week in reverse chronological order, just like this blog. Note that the second bullet point is where I discuss whether it is time to build a book: This morning I got my haircut and decided to flip my part and show my bit of gray. I’ve earned that gray these…
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Thank You Nonsense and Shenanigans
Tempest Rose, author of the amazing blog Nonsense & Shenanigans – Trying to make sense out of nonsense and shenanigans …but usually achieving the opposite, today honored me by nominating me for the Liebster Award at http://nonsenseshenanigans.com/2014/07/12/liebster-award/. Please go visit her blog, enjoy her writing, and learn more about her. The blogs she nominated are well worth reading. Although greatly…
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Liebster Award
Dyane Harwood, blog author of Birth of a New Brain – Healing from Postpartum Bipolar Disorder at proudlybipolar.wordpress.com, just can’t stop loving me. She nominated me for yet another award. This time the Liebster Award. The Liebster Award is a peer-appointed award created to recognize and discover new bloggers, welcome them to the blogosphere, build the…
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Another Award Nomination Today!
Today is a great day. Two, not just one but two, extraordinary bloggers nominated me for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award. They are: Zephyr Struggles of a Bipolar Woman | Fighting every day, Hoping not to lose the battle http://strugglewithbipolar.wordpress.com Zephyr is a loving mom of a one-year-old son. I know from experience that parenting an active toddler boy…
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Advocate or Narcissist
Thursday a new member of OC Writers, a MeetUp writing group I attend, referred to my work as “changing the world.” Of course, he hadn’t yet read my blog. As a Christian author, he assumed my writing was altruistic, since I described it as a mental health blog where I have also posted some seminary papers. The…