This was so much fun! We're going to cover this and more tomorrow in my Collab Popup session on Fridays for Premium Members. Join now for only $144/year. So many things are happening in October! Book series should be ready for November! Let me know if you want a trailer done for your book!

A small Pinterest milestone today — and I think it says something useful about participation. One of my Pins just crossed 1,000 impressions. That matters to me less as a number than as evidence of something I probably would not have done consistently on my own. The Pinterest challenge got me posting. PINSDAY gave me a reason to keep showing up. Seeing what other members were trying gave me ideas. And repeated participation turned “I should probably use Pinterest someday” into an actual habit. That is one of the things I value most about this community. Sometimes the biggest benefit is not the lesson itself. It is the structure, accountability, encouragement, and a little social pressure that get us actually to use what we learn. So thank you, Krista, and thank you to everyone who has shared Pins, ideas, feedback, and encouragement along the way. Participation turns intention into evidence. 📌 https://www.pinterest.com/pin/701857923221506161/

I just want to encourage anybody who's in this group, put their writing on pause, and needs that encouragement to get writing again. I love how this group is so positive. Every time I would see an accountability post, somebody having a win, or some really cool new tool from Miss @Krista Brea , it was encouraging as opposed to a burden. It didn't feel like I was being naughty by not keeping up. It didn't feel like I was getting more and more behind. It just felt like there was a good place for me to go whenever I was ready. I did some praying and some soul-searching October 1st and came to the conclusion that this book needs to be written this quarter so I'm doing it every morning till it's done, barring 2-3 days of batching emails and posts a month. I'm not marketing to my group. I am not doing other big projects. What I'm doing is writing this book. I've been working between 6 and 8 each morning for 3 days this week and have 19,694 words in my transcript document ready for first level edits. This is more than I did in weeks before. Do I know that these words will probably get cut? Yeah. Will they probably get added to? Absolutely. But I have words on the page that I didn't have before and I have a solid structure and plan for how to get more on the page. I have a rhythm and rhythms can lead to habits. If I keep this up I hope to have enough words on the page to start editing in earnest in the next month or two. That would be AWESOME. 𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯'𝘵 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴, 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘦'𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘶𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝗟𝗲𝘁'𝘀 𝗴𝗼 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲!

Hi everyone 👋, I just wanted to share my good news...I've recently self-published three of my books. The Sanctuary Within The Language of Staying and The Chalk Door Each book is very different; they all come from the same place — a lifelong journey through the storms, questions, losses, loves and lessons that make us human. All are now available on Amazon in print and Kindle formats. It's been years in the making- writing, editing, rewriting, editing, designing the covers, testing through friends and all that draining stuff- but the relief after finally publishing has really helped me continue with the writing of other books I have been working on throughout my life.