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Dauntless ❤️‍🔥…Embracing the layers…This is me

Dauntless 🔥 Embracing the layers… This is me.❤️‍🔥 Life is made up of layers... I am just starting my next layer…

Life is made up of layers… I am just starting my next layer. Invincible 🔥This is 46.🔥 Another revolution around the sun starts now. I am counting every year, every moment, every memory, every layer as a boundless blessing. Getting older is a gift not a privilege. I am ready for this new, daring adventure. 🔥This is 46.🔥 That number scares me. But I’m embracing it today. As all my years…

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Not Writing...Courting Monsters

Not Writing…Courting Monsters

The Not Writing Writer is a Monster Courting Insanity

Franz Kafka

Sometimes, not writing is the perfect prescription for a writer, given the right circumstances. Sometimes my thoughts are too chaotic to put pen to paper, or fingers on the keyboard…

Sometimes, Not writing…

Is a way of hiding from my dark emotions and avoiding voicing those chaotic thoughts…

Sometimes, Not writing…

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On Reading between Deadlines | Deadlines and Dead Bodies ☠️📚

Welcome to my new Reading Zone… Deadlines and Dead Bodies… All things books and coffee…

Missives From the Blue “Reading Between Deadlines” Chair…

I finally joined the cool kids and created my own bookstagram account. I decided my “KaffeeKlatsch” reviews need to be revived and refreshed. You can still find my KaffeeKlatsch reviews in the Archives link on this page. Deep Down in The Archives

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Secret WIP 2019 Soundtrack | Track 5

Secret WIP 2019 Soundtrack | Track 5 — #CampNanowrimo #WIP #Project #Inspiration #amwriting

Every time I start a new writing project (WIP), I always create a mood music playlist in Spotify/YouTube to set the tone for that specific writing project. That way when I hear that playlist or specific songs from that playlist, I can immediately fall into the world of that specific project, no matter what I’ve been doing before then. The music playlist is my gateway into my story’s world…

This is…

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Secret WIP 2019 Soundtrack | Track 4

Secret WIP 2019 Soundtrack | Track 4 — #CampNanowrimo #WIP #Project #Inspiration #amwriting

Every time I start a new writing project (WIP), I always create a mood music playlist in Spotify/YouTube to set the tone for that specific writing project. That way when I hear that playlist or specific songs from that playlist, I can immediately fall into the world of that specific project, no matter what I’ve been doing before then. The music playlist is my gateway into my story’s world.

This is…

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Secret WIP 2019 Soundtrack | Track 3 — #CampNanowrimo #WIP #Project #Inspiration #amwriting Every time I start a new writing project (WIP), I always create a mood music playlist in Spotify/YouTube to set the tone for that specific writing project.

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Secret WIP Soundtrack | Track 2

Secret WIP Soundtrack | Track 2

Every time I start a new writing project (WIP), I always create a mood music playlist in Spotify/YouTube to set the tone for that specific writing project. That way when I hear that playlist or specific songs from that playlist, I can immediately fall into the world of that specific project, no matter what I’ve been doing before then. The music playlist is my gateway into my story’s world…

This is…

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Secret WIP 2019 Theme Soundtrack | Track 1

Secret WIP 2019 Theme Soundtrack | Track 1

There are five things I do before beginning any new writing project.

I choose a new notebook specifically for that project. (All a new binder/cover.)

I set up a visual aesthetic mood board for the WIP. (Both digital – Pinterest, and analogue – binder + wall.)

I choose a working title for my WIP.

I set up the Scrivener documents.

I create a Mood Music Playlist in Spotify/YouTube.

Every time I…

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Requiem at the Death Masquerade Ball

Requiem at the Death Masquerade Ball #NaPoWriMo #CampNanowrimo #CampNanowrimo19 This was the Poem that first inspired the dreadfully delicious world of my new Secret Passion Project. #WIP #amwriting

This is the Poem that was the first true seed for my new Secret Passion Project,

The Dark Fairytales.

The imagery in this poem was so visceral to me that the images haunted both my waking and my sleeping hours. It was the first seed for this world that I have fallen in love with and occupies most of my imagination…

Requiem At The Death Masquerade Ball The time has come to bid adieu Creatures…

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Ssshhh... Secret Passion Project |Following Dark Story-Squirrel Trails #CampNanowrimo

Ssshhh... Secret Passion Project | Following Dark Story-Squirrel Trails #CampNanowrimo ...Because certain dark things are to be loved (and imagined) in secret... #CampNaNoWriMo19 #WIP #amwriting #fantasy #mythology #grimdark #dystopian

So, it’s been a while since I’ve taken part in a Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month) event. I had intentions of doing the official Nanowrimo in November last year but my schedule just didn’t allow for it. But this year I am taking part in Nanowrimo events. The first event, Camp Nanowrimo, starts 1 April. I have signed up. To make things even more fun, I’ve corralled my CP, Darcy, (Writing…

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2019 Birthday Vibes & Dreams Fulfilled| Ancora Impara

2019 Birthday Vibes & Dreams Fulfilled| Ancora Impara

This birthday was a good one in so many ways. Things in my life are slowly on the upswing. For so long I’ve been caught in chaos but the chaos is starting to mist away as calm enters my life again.

Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been. | David Bowie

This year I decided to renew a teen dream and give it roots in my present. I have always loved…

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2019 | Seeking White Space

Welcoming in #2019.Setting my Intentions:In 2019 I want this year to be about Space, Spaciousness and making room for more White Space in my days.What does this mean? #OneWord365 #WordOfTheYear #2019Intentions

Welcome 2019

Every year for the past few years, I have not made any New Year Resolutions but instead I have focused my year around One Word. This One Word has themed my year, moulded my intentions and focused my goals. Some years I stuck to just One Word. Some years I chose separate Words for separate areas of my life. In 2018, I chose One Word but then chose a few more words called Core Desired…

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2018 Farewell to the year that was... #PabloNeruda #Poetry #Goodbye2018

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As you may know already, as a follower of me on social media or as a friend, I have a little obsession with all things stationery. As a writer, it seems to go hand in hand with the chosen vocation. But in this digital world, I still prefer paper and pen. Lots of paper and lots of pens.

Something I still prefer to do with paper and pen is planning. Of course I have all the best productivity, agenda and calendar apps and yes I use most of them. I’m not at all a technophobe. Technology has brought us some gems of apps and software that has made life a lot easier.

But for the real meat and gravy of planning, I have always preferred a physical paper planner.

The New Year and the week before the new one begins has always been one of my favourite times of year. It is a week when I take the time to reflect back on the happenings of the current year and decide what worked and what didn’t, what I’m going to continue and what I want to change in the New Year. In this reflection and dreaming, I decide whether my planning system worked or not.

2018 As you can probably guess from my previous post, was a year of turbulence, chaos and change. It was also a year where I had all the best intentions to plan. But the year swept all those intentions away, because I wasn’t focused on planning, I was focused on just getting through the year.

But I’m not beating myself up about that. Instead, I’m realising that some years are less about planning and more about surviving by any means necessary.

But for 2019 I want a different year. I want different plans. I want to be able to plan ahead to make more room for white space in my life. More about that “room for white space” in my upcoming New Year’s Eve post.

You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine. | John C. Maxwell

So a few days ago I watched a few YouTube planner videos for inspiration. Then I sat down and made a list of what I want to plan, what planner I want to compartmentalise certain life areas into and which planners I want to use. One of these youtubers I watched mentioned how sometimes you have to know what sort of a planner you are. Then you have to make your planner/s work for you how you need it to work. This simple advice just clicked for me.

So I sat down with some pen and paper and wrote down my pre-planner plans/needs/wants. I already know that I’m a multiple planner gal. I like to compartmentalise my life. I know I could use just one planner/notebook to plan my whole life in but I also know that just doesn’t work for me. I need separate planners to keep separate areas in my life. Personally, if I only used one planner, I find certain things and certain areas slip through the cracks and I feel trapped in just this one planner. I also know what type of planners I love. I already had two successful uses for two of my planners that I had bought at the beginning of 2018. Towards the end of October, I had also placed my annual Hobonichi order but in November I purchased one last planner. So I had the planners but now I needed a Planning Plan.

All Things Planning

The Planning List

My Life

– – Calendar

– – Daily Schedule / Routine

– – Future Planning

– – Budgeting / Weekly / Monthly Expenses/Income

– – Daily/Weekly/Monthly Chores/Errands

– – To Dos

My Writing

My Daily/Weekly/Monthly Writing Schedule

WIP Editorial Calendar [Work in Progress]

Social Media Editorial Calendar *

Time-Blocking / Tracking hours spent on WIPs

Writer’s Daily Log

Common Place Book

Brainstorming Space

Mind-mapping Space

Morning Pages

Daily Poetry

Multiple WIP Project Tracking

Wellness/Health/Fitness

Health Tracking

Fitness Tracking

Gratitude Journaling

Word of the Year / OneWord365 Focus

CDFs / Core Desired Feelings [Danielle LaPorte – Desire Map]

Then I made a separate list of my planners I own and decided how each would be implemented to compartmentalise the different areas I had established that I wanted to plan.

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All Things Planners

Kikki K Cream “Planner Insider” B6 Ring Binder

CatchAll | Master Planner – Life/Work/Writing

Hobonichi Weeks Mega

Bullet Journal /CatchAll On The Go Planner

ToDos – Scheduled

TaDas – Accomplished

Appointments

Events

Reminders

Budget

To Order

Pets – Cat Litter / Meds / Vet Visits

Lists

– Wishlist

– Current Skincare

– Current Cosmetics

– Currently Reading

– TBR

– Currently Watching

– TBWatched

– Favourite Things

Hobonichi Cousin [January Start]

All Things Writer + Social Media

Monthly

Editorial Calendar | Social Media *

– Social Media

– Post Schedules

– Content Ideas

– Stats:

Views

Followers/Subscribers

Most Popular Posts

Most Popular Time Of Day

Reposts

*[Aside: I have wanted to keep an Editorial Calendar for a long time but I wasn’t certain on how I wanted to implement this. This year I am making this a new focus and a new priority.

I also want a more deliberate plan, going ahead, for posting on Social Media, whether that be here on my blog or in the various social media applications.]*

Writing

Weekly

Track hours spent working

Track Pomodoros

Daily

Morning Pages

Plotting ScratchPad / Brainstorming / Mind-Mapping

What do I want to get done that day?

Hobonichi A6 English Planner

Daily Writer’s Log

Monthly

Poetry / Haiku Per Day

Daily

Daily Writer Log

What did I work on that day?

What did I get done?

Clock Stamp – Chronodex Break Down

Kikki K Zip | Grey & RoseGold “Oh So Lovely” Personal Ring Binder

Editorial Calendar | Writer

Project Planning

WIP Compartmented

Plotting Schedule

Drafting Schedule

Editing Schedule

Notes To Work On

Kikki K Lilac Stripes Personal Ring Binder

Wellness

Health

– Meds

– Migraine Tracking

Fitness

Gratitude Journal

Desire Map / Word Of The Year

A Dream written down with a Date becomes a Goal. A Goal broken down into Steps becomes a Plan. A Plan backed by Action makes your Dreams come true. | Greg Reid

As I see out and Farewell 2018 and as I see in and Welcome 2019, my core focus is to be more intentional in my planning. I want to get into a Planning Routine. I want to make Planning a daily habit. To help me implement this Intentional Planning, I am scheduling it into my daily routine. I’m going to block off time, in my planner, on a Sunday evening to plan the week ahead. Each evening, or as many evenings as I can manage, I want to block off time to plan the day ahead and to reflect on the current day. On the last Sunday of each month, I want to block off time to do a monthly review of the current month and a forward-plan for the next month. I’m hoping that by putting this “Reviewing + Planning” as blocked off time in my planner, it will help make Planning more habitual as part of my normal routine and thereby make my Planning more intentional and less of a last-minute dash off of to-dos.

Tell me, what are your plans for 2019?

Are you a planner? What is your planning system?

Planner Resources

Finally Finding Zen in My Hobonichi

Hobonichi

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Planning Priorities | 2019 Planning an Intentional 2019. What are your plans for 2019? #planner #productivity #amwriting As you may know already, as a follower of me on social media or as a friend, I have a little obsession with all things stationery.

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Life in 2018 has been a circus with all the circus animals running wild and the clowns dropping all the balls.

Speaking of wild animals and cat-astrophes….

I adopted a feline furbaby at Christmas last year. With life being so crazy and tipsy-turbo, I haven’t had a chance to introduce her to you people in Blog-land.

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Meet Nyx.

This girl has brought a brightness and joy to my life in a year when I’ve really needed fun distractions. Jazz, my canine furbaby, absolutely adores his little sister. The two of them can be heard running around the house chasing each other from the early hours of the morning.

It’s been a long time since I’ve had a cat and Nyx is the little cat with mischievous Cattitude and the biggest heart. From the first moment I met her, she stole my heart away. She is a bundle of furry energy which is just as well because her canine brother is the craziest, most energetic furboy I know.

2018 Started off with an emergency trip to the hospital. My body was in free-fall and my system was shutting me down. It’s the closest I’ve ever felt to dying. This hospital visit was a blessing in disguise though because it finally prompted the medical system to take my health concerns seriously. This hospital visit led me down the long, winding pothole-strewn path of multiple doctor visits, specialist consultations, numerous uncomfortable tests and procedures but finally to a tiny ray of light of an actual treatment plan for my longtime health concerns.

2018 Ended with a gruelling new day-job routine that almost burnt me out to my core. I soon came to the realisation that sometimes quitting something and saying “No” is the best medicine you can prescribe yourself.

This perfectly sums up my current attitude or should that be “cattitude”.

So in more ways than just one, 2018 has been a year of cat-astrophe with the dual emphasis on cat and catostrophes and huge changes that taught me a lot about what I am willing to accept and what I simply refuse to accept.

But 2018 has also been a year when I focused in on which direction I am headed in. Years of great catastrophe and chaos have a way of weeding away the unacceptable by scorching the landscape bare but that bare ground gives new seed to fresh blossoms. Sometimes you have to have a year of chaos to burn away the detritus and be able to zero in to what you really want from life.

2018 has been my year of Chaos and Change.

Tell me, what did 2018 teach you?

2018 | When Life is a Circus & Other Cat-astrophes Life in 2018 has been a circus with all the circus animals running wild and the clowns dropping all the balls.

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Birthday Month #BirthdayBehaviour

So… This month is my birthday month. It’s a milestone birthday. Which means…. Milestone surprises. And I’m already being spoilt… Left: New Macbook Right: Old but faithful Macbook Ooh even the box has rose gold accents Ta-da…Now isn’t that just gorgeousness. Everything should be in Rose Gold. The perfect writers’ laptop. All my favourite writer weapons. Pens. Notebooks. The Perfect laptop.…