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Committing to Learning

Committing to learning is a lifelong dedication that shifts your mind and outlook on life. I read a quote online that I can’t recall where from. Unlucky for me, it was from one of those doom-scrolling, ludic loop moments where you get trapped after squeezing your brain dry all day (in my case, some complex design projects). Still, it was a good photo of a book, cropped down to a single line that went like this:

“You are never fully invested in something if you have full confidence in it.”

The statement resonated with me, considering some of the massive overhauls I’ve been doing with my online book marketing, design business, and life direction. How’s that for some vagueness? We’ll dive more into these topics:

Welcome to Another Edition of Unprocessed Thoughts

Like most people over the pandemic, I shifted focus to online sales due to the great world shut down. In my case, book signings, book launches and conventions were no more. This was okay for me because I have a background in the web design industry. I’ve also been learning how big-time indie authors recommend spending their time marketing which I am continually shifting to. Adapting is partly why I did not attend the Calgary Comic Expo this year.

Let’s get back to that quote we opened with. As I said, I have no idea where it came from and if you do, let me know either in the comments or by email because I’m curious. It brings up an interesting point because, as writers, we are fully invested in our craft when we finally complete that manuscript. Finishing a project shows commitment.

Growing is vital for your craft, writing, or any form of artwork. The idea of success and fulfilment with writing varies for every writer. Some writers want craft recognition, others only want to sell a few thousand copies, and others want to go big. This is where confidence becomes a double-edged sword.

Confidence. Ups and Downs.

If you’re confident in something you’re doing, you can take risks, showcase your work better, and open the doors to more opportunities because you’ve shone your abilities and can produce results.

On the flip side, confidence can lead to arrogance, cockiness, and the inability to learn. It can cloud you and your judgement, leading to poor decision-making, especially as years go on and the industries change.

Confidence can also rot your mind, leaving you stuck in your craft, and you become a one-trick pony for an indefinite amount of time until you’re committing to learning once again. That is where the total investment comes in.

Instability is the Constant

Having some confidence is a perk if you remain humble and know when to return to the role of student. Personally, I think we should be lifelong students to exercise our minds, living a fulfilling life, but that’ll derail us into a life philosophy topic.

We are continually growing and changing physically and mentally throughout our time alive, whether we like it or not. Life throws new curveballs at everyone. There’s one constant in life, which is instability. Continually being curious about the world and being willing to learn will keep you engaged, humble, and able to adapt to change.

An Adaptive Mind is Committing to Learning

Artists of all types, or entrepreneurs, must stay light on their feet and pivot quickly to keep up with our ever-changing world. I discussed some of these points in last month’s Unprocessed Thoughts with The Dark Side of Contracting. To expand upon that, we writers are always trying to find new readers. There are millions of them worldwide, which leads to the question: how do you find these people?

The methods change, and one thing will work for some months while some methods remain solid for years. A dramatic example would be referencing the conventions again. They were great for building loyal readers until they all closed in 2020. Many authors can adapt and return to the conventions now that they’re opening again. Sometimes being adaptive means going back and revisiting something with a fresh lens, and I’ll loop it back to the previous statement, which is committing to learning and not letting confidence cloud your mind.

Personal Examples

I’m kind of a clich�� where every year, around December and January, I reflect upon what worked well and what didn’t work well with writing and marketing that year. There are always ups and downs and things I can improve upon.

My marketing re-configuring has been a slow grind with the massive influx of contract work this year. However, I have drastically changed a lot on the backend with automation, tools, and marketing philosophy. It’s phase one. Phase three is profit. Phase two? Who knows? South Park reference aside, re-configuring the systems and my own mindset lets me change how I market my writing online and ultimately reach more readers who will enjoy the stories.

This goes back to committing to learning which sometimes means taking a hard look at yourself in the mirror and asking what you can trim and grow from. Thus, I put on the student hat and picked up some books to re-evaluate my writing and marketing, breaking from the slump.

The newsletter is part of the revamp that I have been working on over the past couple of months. Some of the other books I chatted about in March’s newsletter gave great insight into online marketing. I will explain more about these in the upcoming newsletter, so be sure to sign up if you haven’t.

The personal example covers the first overhaul, online book marketing, which I mentioned initially.

My design business? Well, I want to focus more on design and less web. I also wish to grow and expand my design skills, working on even more cool projects. This ties into the third overhaul, my life direction. It’s taking a new angle this year. More on that later.  

Stay Humble by Committing to Learning

That headline, along with the quote at the beginning of this blog post, sums up the whole thing, and we could have saved about 1,000 words. There’s no fun in that, though, is there? We got graphical icons, subsections, and elaborations on the quote. Either way, we can call it a day and grab a beer. Speaking of a beer, for this month, I tried . . .

Beer Note: Zero Issue Brewing Tartarus Dunkelweizen

For this month, I tried out Calgarian-based Zero Issue Brewing’s Tartarus Dunkelweizen beer, which features artwork by Phil Piercy. I haven’t tried a Dunkelweizen before, and in the spirit of staying curious, thus I did.

I quite enjoy it! Easy drinking and not too potent with a 5.1% alcohol volume making it all about the flavour. It’s something I’d have again sipping on my balcony.

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Blood Will: Part II

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Diabolic Shrimp Short Stories, Poetry, and Novella Panel

In the latest edition of Monday���s Tartar Sauce, bestselling author and comic creator Josh Grant interviews authors Jamey Boelhower, and Konn Lavery. They discuss creating compelling short stories, poetry, and novellas in an epic panel (with some trivia at the end)!

Joshua Grant���s author website, books, and Kickstarter campaign:

https://diabolicshrimp.com/

https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/ent…

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/…

Jamey Boelhower���s books: https://www.amazon.com/Jamey-Boelhowe…

Konn Lavery���s books: https://www.amazon.com/Konn-Lavery/e/…

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The Dark Side of Contracting

Being independently employed has many benefits. For one, you get to set your own hours, which is incredibly handy if you are passionate about writing or any other art. There are pits found on the dark side of contracting, though. If you’re not careful, you’ll fall into one and collide into the icy water below.

Welcome To Another Edition of Unprocessed Thoughts

For this month’s unprocessed thoughts, we’re looking at the dark side of contracting, which applies to small business owners too. I’ve been freelancing full-time since 2014 in the graphic design and web development industries. I would be lying to you if I said there haven’t been significant downers with the benefits of flexibility.

With freelancing, we commonly hear it’s about “lifestyle” or “being your own boss” or “embracing hustle culture,” and my favourite, “do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.” There’s some truth to these generalized statements, but they’re too broad of a stroke. We don’t hear about the dark side of contracting because there’s nothing sexy about hearing bad news.

As mentioned, you can set your own hours. You can also set your rate, decide to take on a project or not. The elasticity is immense. It also benefits companies to seek out freelancers opposed to hiring an employee.

Benefits for The Company

Businesses today are hiring contractors for specific skills on a project-to-project basis. It is cheaper in the long run than hiring someone and worrying about human resources, healthcare, employment liability, etc.

If a business sources niche skills for specific jobs, they drastically cut costs, finding these freelancers in their own network or from a gig site like Fiverr. Discussing quality and cost is another topic, especially with gig sites.

I’ve had colleagues warn me about these gig sites in the past. They have said there’s cheaper competition out there. These gig sites have never impacted my work because I maintain happy clients through top-notch work and transparency.

This is great for a company, but what does that have to do with the dark side of contracting? Well, for starters, let’s look at what it’s like to be on the flip side of the company.

Contractors Need Thick Skins and a Sturdy Backbone

Some companies are intentionally malicious by squeezing out every bit of drop they can from their workers, contracted or employed, while others are oblivious to the actual work involved. Leads may attempt to haggle the contractor’s price down too, and freelancers fall for this. At times, contractors don’t have the confidence to properly negotiate the terms of the agreement. They can spend many hours and do additional work on a project beyond the original scope and quote.

To avoid this dark side of contracting, one must maintain a thick skin and a sturdy backbone to ensure a project doesn’t derail from the original conditions. This keeps everyone is happy with the results. Of course, there are times you just can’t please specific clients.

Politics and Bullies

You would be surprised to learn that office politics don’t stay in the employment realm. There are plenty of politics that can be found when freelancing. Projects can mutate due to the internal politics of your client’s company which will alter how your work is done. Or you’ll have some clients you have to tread lightly with due to their personalities.

Bullies don’t just appear in the playground. They follow us well into adulthood and morph into politics where egos and pride play critical roles. People try to secure their importance within a company to prove their value which can affect you as the contractor if they push you around for their own benefit.

Opposite of a sturdy backbone, stay flexible enough to work with unforeseen circumstances because no one has a crystal ball. Be sturdy enough to know when to stand your ground and flexible enough to adapt.

Here is a quote from Bruce Lee, which you’ve likely heard, that is more poetic:

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

��� Bruce Lee

I’ve been quite fortunate to have a consistent client base and have rarely run into the two topics mentioned above. They do exist, and like any contractor who has been in the business long enough, I have had my run-in with them. Thankfully they don’t last long, and we part ways.

These aren’t the only pits on the dark side of contracting. Cash is king, and with freelancing, there are challenges with it.

Getting Paid

This is the second biggest pit in the dark side of contracting. Unlike employment, freelancers are required to fetch the money themselves. And it’s up to you to follow up when you need to get paid.

There are many reasons why clients are late or never pay. Here are some scenarios:

Their accounting team has changed, and your invoice gets lost.The person you’re working with has quit or been fired, and no one knows about your project, and it dissolves.They do not have the money to pay you and are avoiding it.They don’t ‘feel’ the work is worth paying anymore.They forget.

Believe it or not, clients forgetting is the most common reason why you’re unlikely to get paid. Do the best you can to keep them pleased, and they’ll be keen on paying you quicker.

As a freelancer, keep track of all the invoices you send out, split by the month, to ensure that you are on top of all the work you did and the money owed to you. Speaking of keeping track of things, this leads us to our next section.

Biting Off More Than You Can Chew

Contractors supply quotes for projects. On the dark side of contracting, this pit is supplying too many quotes, and they are all approved. This can occur from submitting RFPs, too many client referrals, or an influx of projects from existing clients. Even if you can negotiate timelines and the pay is good, sometimes there is too much work for you to deal with on your own.

There are ways of handling too many projects, such as:

Subcontract Someone You Trust

As a freelancer, you should develop a professional network of colleagues you can rely on hiring if you have too much work or team up with more significant projects. With subcontracting, you can tax a project management fee as well.

Pass The Work to a Colleague

You may have no time to play project manager and want to entirely remove the project. This is another reason why keeping professional relationships within your industry is helpful.

Negotiate Time or Throw Your Hands Up

Try to negotiate an extended timeline. Perhaps the timeline is too tight, or you have no colleagues to pass the client onto. Worst case, you can tell them you can’t help them and pass on quoting. In the end, they’re not your boss. They’re your client. Careful, though. You can burn bridges this way.

Even Then . . .

There are times when you simply can’t do any of the above and have too much work. Maybe you need the money or none of the other options available to you, and you must do all of the projects. In this case, you will be working many hours and long days. Your quality of work will degrade because it’s inhuman to work long weeks. We’re not designed to be production machines.

There’s more to life than simply working, and it’s important to remember that as a freelancer because we can get lost in our own heads. This leads us to the final and most giant pit.

Personal Life Suffers

This is the enormous pit on the dark side of contracting. Not having thick skin with a sturdy backbone will put stress on you. It increases the chance of not getting paid, leading to politics and bullies or biting off more than you can chew. These pits will cause a decline in your health and quality of life.

Make sure you set clear boundaries, realistic pricing for your skills, and stick to timelines while doing excellent work. It’s the best way to avoid any of these pits. If you do fall in one of these pits, you can climb out of them.

Personal Experience

Here’s a short example of some of the above that we’ve discussed: All of 2022, I have bitten off more than I can chew. Since January, I have worked 70 hours a week, Sunday through Friday. It made me scattered, lose track of project details, reduced my quality of work, and impacted my personal life. Amazingly enough, I’ve still been writing short stories on Patreon and am near completion for my next book release.

No one is to blame for my scenario. It was an accumulation of many things, from timelines bleeding over, scopes mutating, an influx of new projects, and the world opening back up again after two years of a pandemic.

Life is Beyond Control

We all make mistakes and end up making rookie moves which are embarrassing when we are seasoned in our line of work. You can’t predict unforeseen circumstances in business, such as timeline extensions for the client, being paid, scope mutations, personal tragedies, etc. You can do everything right to the best of your abilities, and the universe will go completely against you.

Freelancing adds another layer to the complexity of life’s random nature. Steady and reliable work tends to be for people employed by the government, while freelancing is everything opposite of that. It has many benefits, but you can still fall into the pits on the dark side of contracting.

There are other holes here, too, which we haven’t covered. Here’s a short list of some:

Managing the admin business paperwork and messing it up.Accounting. Unless you’re an accountant, I’d highly recommend hiring someone for that.Additional expenses like healthcare and tools.Holidays and sick days equal no pay (no work, no invoice).Office space.You set the labour standards.

As a contractor, the best way to stay clear of the pits is to be lean, vigilant, and remember your humanity. Business is cutthroat, and it is easy to forget who we are. Before you know it, you’ll fall to the bottom of one of these pits and be swallowed up in the icy waters. What was once human will become a shark, preying on others who fall into the dark side of contracting.

Beer Note: The Est. Brave Noise Pale Ale

I tried the Est. ‘s Brave Noise Pale for this month’s Unprocessed Thoughts, a 4 .5% alcohol volume. The beer comes in a four-pack set. It’s a little hazier than I usually like, but I enjoy its lightness compared to some beers claiming to be pale ales and are usually IPAs. These go down easy, and it is worth having a few if you’re not drowning in the ocean of work.

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Let’s Talk with She Blurbs Interview

I’m pleased to have been on Let’s Talk with She Blurbs podcast where I share details on all my writing, books, and various genres I’ve written in. Listen to it below:

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Interview and Horror Discussion All Outta Bubblegum EP 08 Neil Chase and Konn Lavery

Check out the interview and discussion I had on author/actor Neil Chase’s radio show All Outta Bubblegum on Sound Sugar Radio.

We chat about writing horror in all mediums, favorite horror movies, what makes horror so fun, and some common misconceptions and tropes (good and bad) within the genre.

Listen to it here!Interview and Horror Discussion All Outta Bubblegum EP 08 Neil Chase and Konn Lavery

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Blood Will: Part I

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Keeping Momentum While Writing

Keeping momentum while writing is key to writing. It���s basically the ���running a marathon��� concept that we are familiar with as writers. It���s easier said than done, like most things when talked about. Little bits of consistency goes a long way, and before you know it, weeks, months, and even years go by, and you have a collection of work, as long as you���re keeping the momentum while writing.

Welcome to Another Edition of Unprocessed Thoughts

Today we are talking about rhythm, momentum, and consistency with your writing craft. It���s what I���ve been doing at the start of the New Year, wrapping up a new short story collection and working on a new series.

Good Habits and Bad Habits

Keeping momentum while writing isn���t easy because it comes down to creating a new habit. Good habits are difficult to implement. It���s prevalent for us to introduce bad habits, and more often than not, we don���t even realize its introduction until it has had a significant impact on our lives.

Good habits also take consistency. Bland, boring, constants. There���s no way around it. Depending on who you ask, it���ll take anywhere from six weeks to eleven weeks of constant applying. Of course, it depends on the person too. Truthfully, only you know if it is a habit that has been ingrained into your mind.

How do you know when you have a good habit?

You will know if the habit is locked in as a natural habit when it doesn���t take conscious effort to do it anymore. Think about breathing, walking, or the ingrained purpose of having to get up and go to work every day to pay your bills.

These are all habits that we have, whether intentional or not. Introducing one for writing is the exact same thing. Yes, some days are slog any you don���t want to go to work, and the same goes with writing. But the instinct to do it creates the habit for the end result.

You���ll know if the habit is good when it���s productive. It���s pretty self-explanatory. If the habit negatively impacts your life, it���s time to seek ways to break them. Now, breaking bad habits is an entirely different thing and a big undertaking.

Momentum, habits, how does one do it?

It takes a lot of deliberate effort to introduce a new habit into your life. This is done through momentum and keeping the rhythm going. Give that new habit a religious status in your life; you MUST do it. Whether you are trying to introduce it daily, weekly, or multiple times a day, do it consistently for weeks on end. Little before you know it, you���ll just know that is what you have to do in the day. You���ll feel incomplete if you don���t.

This is why keeping momentum while writing is so important. At first, it is a long, grudging effort to sit down and write all the time. It���s so much easier to only write when you���re inspired or in a good mood. Remember work? You don���t always go to work when you���re inspired. You have to go when you���re not in the mood because you know your responsibility is to do that. Your books are your responsibility.

Change of Mindset: Keeping momentum while writing

Mindset is the big key when introducing a habit. It���s easy to talk up the storm and say how motivated you are to do something and how you���re going to do it. But if you don���t follow through with the action your words are hot air. You must genuinely and honestly want to do it.

Often, we throw these ideas around during New Year���s resolutions, saying that we���re going to accomplish all these things. Don���t overshoot, be realistic. Keeping momentum while writing is about having rhythm and not doing giant spirits where you tackle vast chunks of writing and then burn out for months on end.

It���s Okay to Relapse

Habits are tricky because you���re rewiring your system to be familiar with an entirely new process. You���re going to have moments where you don���t meet the same rhythm you were doing in previous days. Maybe something catastrophic happened, or you were tired, or your day was too full. We forget. Things happen, and you can���t beat yourself up about it.

Dance!

This consistency isn���t all slamming your fingers onto the keyboard to produce words on the screen. It���s also about the momentum of your mindset. Think of dancing; when you���re into song and getting lost in the rhythm, you���re not worried about making mistakes. If your foot slips from the tempo, who cares? Just get up on your feet and keep dancing.

Mindset is a bit part when keeping momentum while writing. You���re going to slip up, and that���s fine. You keep writing the following day.

Those Long-term Goals and Mighty-big Writing Projects

Habit is the big secret to conquering the mighty-big goal of writing a book and growing your author career. Creating stories from thin air and placing them into the hands of readers is an impressive task. It has many moving parts and requires months and years of effort. Be honest with yourself, and if you genuinely want to write, keep at it.

A personal example would be with me and drawing. If I didn���t draw one night a week, I wouldn���t be drawing it all. I���ve been consistent with it for about nine years, resulting in wonderful things. My skill drastically increased in various forms of mediums. I���ve also managed to fill three sketchbooks worth of sketches.

Writing is the same. Whether you���re doing it once a week or daily, over enough time of momentum, you���re going to see amazing results.

Beer Note: 88 Double Dare Imperial IPA

For this month���s Unprocessed Thoughts, I tried the Calgary-based brewery 88���s special series, the Double Imperial IPA. It sits at a 7.7% alcohol volume and is labelled strong beer. After the first sip, it didn���t taste like strong beer. This is too tasty and not overly hoppy, which I���ve preferred these days. That combo is quite dangerous, and I am pleased to have a second. Maybe a third? We���ll see.

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Interview with Simon Rose, author of The Stone of the Seer

Welcome Simon Rose to the blog!

I’m pleased to welcome back Simon Rose to the blog to discuss his new novel, The Stone of the Seer on his birthday too! The last time we had Simon was in 2018 for the Parallel Destiny novel.

Simon Rose is from Calgary, who has published eighteen novels for children and young adults, eight guides for writers, more than a hundred nonfiction books, and many articles on a wide variety of topics. Today, we���re looking at his latest release, The Stone of the Seer, the first novel in the Stone of the Seer series.

So what���s the new The Stone of the Seer series all about?

The Stone of the Seer is an exciting historical fantasy series of adventure novels for young adults, primarily set in the turbulent period of the English Civil War.

The Stone of the Seer, book one in the series, features the Vikings, Leonardo da Vinci, and the political turmoil of the 1640s. At Habingdon House, Lady Elizabeth Usborne, Kate, and Tom encounter a magical black stone, mysterious ancient manuscripts, and the incredible time viewing device known as the tempus inpectoris, all while under constant threat from the murderous witchfinder, Daniel Tombes.

The other novels in the series are Royal Blood and Revenge of the Witchfinder, which will be published in the coming months. There will be a box set including all three novels at some point in the future as well.

And what���s the story behind the story?

The story, main characters, and some of the settings in The Stone of the Seer are fictional but are based on true events and the story features real historical characters, such as King Charles I. The English Civil War was a series of conflicts in England, Scotland, and Ireland in the 1640s and early 1650s. The war originated in the struggle between Charles I and Parliament, regarding how the country should be governed.

The king���s defeat in the civil war led to his trial and execution in January 1649. The monarchy was abolished and replaced first by the Commonwealth of England and then the Protectorate, before the monarchy was restored in 1660. However, the defeat of Charles I confirmed that an English monarch could not rule the country without the consent of Parliament, although this wasn���t legally established until the Glorious Revolution in 1688.

You must have done quite a lot of historical research for this book.

Yes, it���s a time period I���ve always been interested in, but it still involved considerable research. I���ve included a glossary at the end of each of the three novels in the series where you can learn more about the historical events, settings, and leading characters from the English Civil War, locations that are mentioned in the text, life in the seventeenth century, and details from other historical periods that are featured in the story. There���s also a page on my website all about the historical background behind the books, with links to online sources about the time period.

What are you currently working on?

I always have a current project or two and right now I���m writing another historical fantasy novel series set in World War II. I���m also working on sequels to the Flashback series of paranormal novels, which includes Flashback, Twisted Fate, and Parallel Destiny, which you can learn more about on my website at simon-rose.com. In addition, I���m working on screenplay adaptations of the Shadowzone series and have also completed a number of picture books for younger readers, which I hope will be published soon.

You also work with other authors, don���t you?

Yes, I do quite a lot of that these days. I provide coaching, editing, consulting, and mentoring services for writers of novels, short stories, fiction, nonfiction, biographies, inspirational books, and in many other genres. I also work as a writing instructor at the University of Calgary and have served as the Writer-in-Residence with the Canadian Authors Association. You can find details of some of the projects I���ve worked on, along with some references and recommendations, on my website.

So where can people buy The Stone of the Seer?

The novel can be purchased at most of the usual places, as follows:

Ebook:��Amazon Canada,��Amazon USA,��Kobo,��iBooks,��Barnes and Noble,��Smashwords��

Paperback:��Amazon Canada, Amazon USA

Thanks Simon, for being my guest here today and the very best of luck with the Stone of the Seer series. I hope the first book sells thousands of copies in the coming weeks and months.

You can learn more about Simon and his work on his website at www.simon-rose.com, where you can also link to his social media sites and other locations online.

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Sway

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