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I spoke too soon! What is this with the white stuff falling down once again, I mean REALLY! Haven’t we had enough?!
I know that tomorrow, theoretically, it will warm up to the forties, but still, seeing more snow just got me down. I want blue skies, green shoots now!
I did take a long whiff of my rosemary plant to calm me down, it worked, aromatherapy works wonders on the psyche.
laurieanichols 
Here’s a happy feeling I’m sending to you. 🙂 Drives away snow, too. 🙂
Also, there’s an amazing book, “The How of Happiness,” written by a research psychologist with an impressive name, Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D. Here’s her web site: http://thehowofhappiness.com/about-the-author/
I give her book ten stars on a scale of one to five. (I’ve never met her, by the way.)
Talmage
Dear Talmage, Thank you so very much for your message of happiness, it did the trick and thanks for the link to the website as well. I’ll be sure to check it out. I am fairly sure that I suffer from the winter blues, I can take small doses but I crack once it continues for too long. I can never live in Scandinavia lol. 🙂
Winter blues sometimes seems to be related to vitamin D levels… in some people. I get winter blues and take vitamin D, but nothing helps like yoga breathing and stretching… except the thyroid meds I’m taking for hypothyroidism. I ran out of those recently and had a few tough days (mood-wise) before I could get my prescription re-filled. Wish I could stockpile the stuff. 🙂
Stockpiling would be a godsend if it were possible for medications, my mother has stockpiles of toilet paper and paper towels but alas, those aren’t handy when mood swings strike. Yoga and deep stretching do work wonders for the endorphins I do know that, I have to get back into a yoga routine. Thanks for all of the advice 🙂 I hope that your hypothyroidism doesn’t get to be too much of a drag.
Thanks. The hypothyroidism is no problem at all when I have the meds. Having the condition most of my adult life but not getting it diagnosed (until recently) was a bit of a problem – always cold, often full of free-floating anxiety and the blues, but now it’s not even noticeable unless I run out of meds.
Stockpiling paper towels… now there’s an idea whose time has come! 😉 I’ll get right on it. lol
I have to confess that we have always teased my mother about it, though if Amageddon ever happens I am going to her house for the duration. I’m glad that you have your diagnosis handled and managed, I have a similar situation with rheumatoid arthritis, mine is managed and I do fine with it. 🙂 Now if we can only get ourselves published the world would be very wonderful. 😀
You will get published. It’s just a matter of time and the enjoyment of the journey.
You forgot to include yourself. If you don’t mind me saying, I think that you most certainly have a book within you that is crying out for publishing, your posts written about the process of writing are excellent. I would read a book made up of all your posts on the subject. Everything that you cover in your posts about character development, the difficulty of writing dialogue, I relate to and I find a great source of inspiration and also a new perspective. When I see that you like something that I have written, I take it as a big compliment.
Thank you. That means so much. I enjoy writing non-fiction about writing fiction, but I feel like I would need to be a published fiction writer, capable of following at least some of my own better judgement, before I tried to publish a book for sale on fiction writing. (I did write a free e-book on writing fiction, but it needs a lot of cutting of boring parts as well as line editing – too much inefficient wording.
I find it ten time more difficult and rewarding to write fiction than non-fiction about writing. But your advice is wise and I appreciate it. 🙂 If I can’t get my characters involved in conflict pretty soon, I’ll never have more than a few fiction readers. There’s just something in me that avoids conflict, both in life and in my fiction where its absence kills a story. Also, this version of the story is so experimental with all the links and pictures, the broken fourth wall, all the taboo “preaching” about intelligent design that Johanna does, and the flying saucers that mainstream sf shuns as much as the general public. But my character, Johanna, has my heart. I’m willing to fail as a fiction writer if that’s what it takes to keep writing her story. That probably sounds insane or stubborn, but it’s how I feel. Also, I feel like I will succeed as a fiction writer. Not some positive-thinking kind of thing, I actually believe that I can make it into a compelling story if I just keep at it… and keep forcing myself to read more fiction. I’ve been conditioned to “feel” like I’m wasting time when I read fiction. I have to fight that because there’s no other way to learn the art. Thank you again, very much, for encouraging me to write about writing. If I ever get published, even as a semi-successful indie fiction writer, I will bundle some of my posts and try to get an editor to help me turn them into a book. 🙂
Keep at it and stay faithful to your character Johanna because if there is something that I have learned from reading about successful writers is that it is the story and the character that matter. Perseverance is perhaps the key?
We have the opposite – here it is supposed to be autumn but it is still summer argh!
I’m sorry that it’s still hot 😦