Admittedly, I’m not a fan of my current placement on The Road to Authorship. I’m in a phase where I don’t wholeheartedly belong. It reminds me of an uncomfortable feeling of displacement, where I’m no longer content in staying where I’ve been living but I’m not quite sure where my new residence will be just yet. This position in the book writing world is a little unsettling to me. (Maybe you know of this place, too?)
Anyway, here’s my dilemma. I’m at a point where I’m mentally running on all my self-publishing cylinders, ready to release my book baby into the world. However, I can’t physically make that happen until all the finishing touches are professionally completed. So, I wait, trying to put up a patient front but inwardly feeling a sense of entrapment. I need my mental and physical cylinders to hurry up and align in a quickness, so I can be freed to move on to my new book.
I’ve started book #2 but abruptly stopped after the first week. Reason being: I’ve felt it very difficult to concentrate on moving forward before finishing what I’ve started with book #1. When I tried to pursue book #2, I found myself racking up too many irons in the fire simultaneously. And, I don’t work well like that. Therefore, I’ve found it necessary to hang out in the in-between zone until I get my first book on Amazon’s online bookshelves.
Hmmm . . . you may be wondering what I’ve been doing in the interim to occupy my time since I haven’t been able to devote myself to writing the second book. Well, I’ve been absorbing myself in reading books, reading articles, and watching videos about:
- book marketing,
- content marketing, and
- community involvement.
Furthermore, I’ve been beefing up my postings here at Degrees of Maternity. So, I’ve been quite busy.
Lastly, I’ve relied on my motivational sources to keep my mind right and my spirit uplifted during this time of displacement. Some of those sources (doing everything they can to give me a positive boost and sense of belonging) are as follows:
- reading the Bible,
- writing for the Degrees of Maternity blog,
- listening to testimonials from self-published authors, and
- researching about entrepreneurship
Feeling a little deflated, but this soon shall pass. For now, I’ll make the best of this place where I currently reside . . . this place in the in-between.
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