07-05-2015, 09:17 PM
Day 43 week 6
Due to the fact that I am less anxious and emotional I’ve found that this in particular has enhanced my concentration. I don’t fidget or get sidetracked so easily when I’m doing something, which allows me to concentrate far longer and with greater energy. So it’s more of a blockage to concentration that was removed, not really an enhancement of my raw ability to concentrate. It’s still very nice though. That means I still have room to directly increase my concentration levels (probably through BASE or whatever later on).
Socially people are still generally warmer. In public places I still reach out to others if I have questions instead of quickly referring to my phone.
I felt some resistance in the form of dreams for the last few days of the week. My dreams are typically neutral or positive, but a few were definitely symbolic of struggle and I take that to mean that I'm dealing with some sort of issues on a very deep subconscious level. It's funny that when we think we're over our conscious issues, the subconscious stuff pops up and smashes the crap out of that notion – that we think we're alright. Nope, there are still some land mines on the playing field that either need to be disabled or set off. We'll see how that goes in the coming weeks.
In my writing and publishing business I have decided that short stories should be my focus. I have been working on a 4 book series of fiction (think of Rambo meets Harry Potter + Human Centipede) detailing the atrocities of war where the main weapon no one talks about is a sort of magic or spiritual/psychological weapon the government is secretly developing.
I have a strong concept for the series and how things will go, but the first books feels like it’s going to take forever to piece together. I can smash together 2 – 5k chapters pretty easily, but it just feels like it’s dragging on and on and on to get this thing finished. Then I’ll have the next 3 books to complete lol
At the very least that’s all going to take a few years to completely come together. So I need to get other shorter works out there, namely some hard hitting shorter stories that can give me an income while I’m working on other stuff.
Writing lots of short stories is my LTU attributed epiphany. It feels like this is something that LTU helped with because that was resistance for me. I had to come to terms with the fact that though I greatly enjoy my 70,000+ word per book magic series, but I’m also good at writing shorter works. And writing those shorter works needs to be something I accept of myself though the overall writing recognition won’t be there (it’s the smash hit longer novels/novella/novelettes that get the real recognition) but it will at least help my income while my longer works get sorted out.
Keep in mind that I’ve only had my publishing business since about April. So this is all very new, just like my experiences with LTU, so there’s a lot to get ‘used’ to in terms of effort and work put forth and personal and evolutionary growth to manage. But, that is a safe and sound sixth week of LTU checked off the list.
Due to the fact that I am less anxious and emotional I’ve found that this in particular has enhanced my concentration. I don’t fidget or get sidetracked so easily when I’m doing something, which allows me to concentrate far longer and with greater energy. So it’s more of a blockage to concentration that was removed, not really an enhancement of my raw ability to concentrate. It’s still very nice though. That means I still have room to directly increase my concentration levels (probably through BASE or whatever later on).
Socially people are still generally warmer. In public places I still reach out to others if I have questions instead of quickly referring to my phone.
I felt some resistance in the form of dreams for the last few days of the week. My dreams are typically neutral or positive, but a few were definitely symbolic of struggle and I take that to mean that I'm dealing with some sort of issues on a very deep subconscious level. It's funny that when we think we're over our conscious issues, the subconscious stuff pops up and smashes the crap out of that notion – that we think we're alright. Nope, there are still some land mines on the playing field that either need to be disabled or set off. We'll see how that goes in the coming weeks.
In my writing and publishing business I have decided that short stories should be my focus. I have been working on a 4 book series of fiction (think of Rambo meets Harry Potter + Human Centipede) detailing the atrocities of war where the main weapon no one talks about is a sort of magic or spiritual/psychological weapon the government is secretly developing.
I have a strong concept for the series and how things will go, but the first books feels like it’s going to take forever to piece together. I can smash together 2 – 5k chapters pretty easily, but it just feels like it’s dragging on and on and on to get this thing finished. Then I’ll have the next 3 books to complete lol
At the very least that’s all going to take a few years to completely come together. So I need to get other shorter works out there, namely some hard hitting shorter stories that can give me an income while I’m working on other stuff.
Writing lots of short stories is my LTU attributed epiphany. It feels like this is something that LTU helped with because that was resistance for me. I had to come to terms with the fact that though I greatly enjoy my 70,000+ word per book magic series, but I’m also good at writing shorter works. And writing those shorter works needs to be something I accept of myself though the overall writing recognition won’t be there (it’s the smash hit longer novels/novella/novelettes that get the real recognition) but it will at least help my income while my longer works get sorted out.
Keep in mind that I’ve only had my publishing business since about April. So this is all very new, just like my experiences with LTU, so there’s a lot to get ‘used’ to in terms of effort and work put forth and personal and evolutionary growth to manage. But, that is a safe and sound sixth week of LTU checked off the list.
