Things I worry about

I’m a worrier. Always have been. Probably always will be. My brain always working leads to a lot of story ideas, but sometimes it’s exhausting.

Here is a non-comprehensive list of things I worry about usually when I wake up in the middle of the night.

I worry that I set up my book business stuff wrong. There’s so many little pieces involved with self-publishing and I worry that I’m doing it all wrong.

I worry that because I write obsessively and fast that people will think I use AI. I published four books last year, but I didn’t write them all last year. I’ve been writing everyday for five years. The words add up. The books pile up. I have three other mysteries from 2021, 2022, and 2023 that I may never do anything with. I’m currently rewriting a romance I originally wrote in 2023. Writing is my happy place. And truth be told, I’m not the best sleeper. I’d rather just get up at four or sometimes three than lie in bed and worry that I’m not sleeping. Also I like em dashes and lists of threes. And when I come up with good metaphors it gives me tingles. This all makes me worry that people will think I use AI. I don’t.

I worry I am not marketing enough.

I worry that I’m marketing too much.

I want to have a Romance Writer Summer Camp and I’m not quite sure how to do it yet. I worry there won’t be any interest.

I’m so in love with my new idea and I worry that I’m not going to do it justice.

It’s not also doom and gloom. I also hope.

I hope someone will find my book and it’ll will touch them. I hope it will move them. I at least hope it will entertain them.

I hope I am able to write all the stories in my head. (There’s a lot).

I hope my efforts are helping.

Anyway. Not much content here really. I just wanted to share my hopes and my fears on this cloudy (in PNW) Tuesday.

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Thanks for being here. It really means a lot to me. If you’d like to share what you worry about at 3 am I’d love to listen.