I’m a psychic person prone to stress issues. I’m trying to learn to manage my stress better through breathwork. I wasn’t taught that psychic stuff was real, I’m trying to learn how to manage stress this season by breathing. My therapists have taught me breathing exercises but I recognize I need so much therapy to treat myself, I cannot begin to describe what kind of therapy I need, etc. I’m thinking about putting myself into mental health rehab in Los Angeles. Yes, LA has many ways to make yourself sick, but also many ways to make yourself well. I know there is a psychic on every street corner. But hey, what do you do if psychics break the law? They do that on occasion like everybody else.
Okay, I’m a psychic medium, among other things, so this time of year is happening. Although I’ve kept the psychic stuff to a bare minimum this year since the trick is to come to a conscious decision you don’t need to deal with all of it. I’m not as overrun with otherworldly anything this year. I’m leading a caffeine-free, chocolate free lifestyle. Chocolate aggravates my anxiety anyway, and heartburn too. My acid reflux is only kept under control with mind over body stuff anyway, but at the same time, I appreciate my heartburn medication. On the 29th, I have to stop taking my heartburn medication. I may have to wind up paying for elective hernia surgery myself since life without ketchup, chocolate, or onions and garlic is odd. I can’t have vinegar either. Fun. Or raw vegetables. Yes, that was my diet in part, and I was told to stop eating them a few months ago. This time of year is something I’m trying not to make too intense. The only reason I’m not super stressed is because this year, the heat waves are less intense.
Don’t get me wrong, I like it, I work hard, and my neighborhood knows it. But the thing is, one of my old doctors remarked that I’m in the wrong business. Then again, she has a point, although I’m learning how to manage stress so that fact doesn’t get to me. Therapy helps you learn stress management. As it is, I have like three therapists right now. The thing about life in general is that you have to make an effort, to succeed. It is not random- the thing about success is that it is planned. I’m working on learning how to pitch my writing, it will take time to learn-eventually I’m going to publish stuff. Working hard eventually pays off even if there are no guarantees.
I’ve been working on the Art of the Pitch this year, only because I want to publish my articles in real mainstream publications. I’ve been working hard on my hooks, which is the first line of an article or piece of writing in general. After thinking about it real hard, I may want to enroll in San Jose State’s technical writing program online. Yes, now that everything has its online equivalent, I have the advantage. I have articles rattling around in my head, and my fiction is steadily complaining I don’t pay enough attention to it. I’m trying here. I’m gathering together energy to get all of the above done, give or take. I’m working on myself, which is also a process.
Getting a literary agent is all about making sure you find the right one, in your niche, also known as genre. Books have to be obvious about which genre they come from but there is also such thing as mixed genre efforts, such as a science fiction mystery. I’m reading H.P. Lovecraft right now. It seems to be mixed genre with the science fiction or fantasy thrown into it. An agent is your guide to the literary world, as you seek to publish your book like it is a quest. It really does feel like a quest at times. Selecting a good literary agent means that you find one endorsed, not someone who charges a reading fee. Literary agents help one get their foot in the door, since literary agents refine a manuscript for you with their own grammar knowledge.
It is hard to publish stuff without an agent these days. I need to find one, and soon, I’m working on my fiction now. I mean my block is lifted, as I feel I can work on it. Genres who do not need a literary agent are: poetry, academic/educational, cookbooks, non-fiction, while those who do need an agent are in fiction, children’s picture books, and memoir. Your proposal must have a good argument as to why the agent should bother with your book. To start the process of looking for a literary agent, one must make a list from databases like Reeedsy, Agent Query or Query Tracker, while searching who represents your favorite authors. The acknowledgements pages thank the literary agent often enough. The Reedsy blog I’m citing has helped me figure out some of what lies behind the mystery of finding a literary agent.
Evaluating each agent is something that should be done. I found that McBride Literary agency might work for my book on bullies. Other big name publishers I have pitched to will work on my book about psychic attack. I have a science fiction book I finished, that is out, as a rough draft of sorts. I should look into submitting that. I appreciate the fact that these days, we can submit through the Internet not using paper at all. You have to work with a company who is looking for queries, not asking for a reading fee/upfront fee at all. A personalized query letter starts with a hook, since your query letter needs to be reviewed by a professional. Agents have submission guidelines that authors should put their work together while having them in mind. Each query letter has to be personalized, and I can do this if I get enough postage to send it out with.
This is why I need to fix the printer. I can get paper to print snail mail letters. You have to make sure you are with the right agent for you, and I know how to put this advice to good use, since you can query multiple agents. You do not want or need to switch agents for every book. I’m trying to get my bullies book professionally edited, and cleaned up since the track changes feature is on. Literary agents work on commission, in particular if your publisher wants to pay out a $20,000 advance for your work. The agent then gets a commission of $3,000. Even if I self-published Opening New Dimensions, I have just read that I can get a decent agent who can get me translation, film and TV rights. My book sits on Amazon, a lump on a log, not being read by many.
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I’m going to start a full service vegetable garden in my house. It will utilize minimal space, and I know I need a tarp to put over my drawer when I move everything into the drawer for the winter. I’m growing two tomato plants and two Zucchini plants. I’m going to try to not go to Lucky for vegetables I do not have in this house when they do start growing better. I’m also going to turn my garden into a medicinal herb and cooking herb garden. I will be growing witchcraft protection herbs in this house as well because I want to start my own shipping business.
Nobody reads my blog, and rarely do you people read my Facebook page. Who reads my stuff online? Few. Do you prefer to believe all the lies you’ve been told about me? Do you really want financial support from me when you’ve given me nothing per the family social order? I write in English, I can tell jokes in either Spanish or English and yet you guys seem to find it fit to ignore me. All three continents ignore me, since you believe I’m the bad one, not the good one. I assure you it is the opposite. Only one person is getting a USB drive in Spain and that is a friend of mine, Bea.
My blood sugar is stabilizing, after a freak menstrual cycle from hell that is, and now I’m like 173, and experiencing marginal control success. Either that or I have high standards, and want to get my average to 150 mg/dl with no lows, maintaining said average. I am trying for five normal readings a day, the rest can be messed up. I’m also trying to come up with diabetes math equations that I can use to figure out diabetes. As a whole, I’m feeling much better over all. I’m working on getting myself stabilized. I go through periods of my life where my control goes where it goes. I’m working on it, really.
It will be a pair of sneakers most likely, only because formal shoes, I’m not necessarily sure if I need some although a pair of comfortable winter shoes would be good for me. I will have to start searching the depths of Amazon.com to find new shoes. Buying new shoes is a rare event for me but I need to get sneakers if I’m going to be able to go for walks during what’s left of this quarantine since COVID is keeping us at home a lot even if walks are easy to get done during these bizarre times. This challenging time is something that feels weird. I’m trying my best here to stay sane, while not going near people who may give me the virus if they have it.
Going shopping with someone with OCD is an exercise in paranoia for you normal people. I didn’t know I also had OCD, so I’m afraid to go shopping in the present due to the virus, and more reasons than that. I’m afraid to have to scrutinize in a nitpicky fashion my clothing options. I’m running out of clothing as it is, which means I’m going to have to buy more. I’m working on figuring out how to dress myself since I realized crew cut socks was a search term. I don’t like low rise jeans either.
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