Crystal Blade Episode 28: Happy Father’s Day is live at Kindle Vella. Go forth and enjoy the start to the weekend.

I can tell that I’m falling into a rut. My dreams are all about organization and setting things up, which makes it very obvious in the morning that I’m boring myself silly.

Part of it is that there’s not a whole hell of a lot of differentiation in my days, and won’t be until I get all the books reformatted and published wide. I wake up, feed the cats, get to work on Crystal Blade, then switch over to formatting once I get the day’s word count in. Somewhere in between all that I do my time on the treadmill, go out to the store and pick up necessities, make dinner, cook and clean, and if the weather is bearable in the garage do some jewelry work.

And that is hella better than it could be—I’m grateful to have to freedom to do all that. But it’s also the same stuff day in and day out, and that’s not good from a creative standpoint. I need to refill the creative well with … I don’t know, something. New experiences, new places, something to get my imagination working again.

What I really need is a vacation. Which will be a possibility this year if this contract work comes through. In the meantime, I need to find little ways to break up the day and have some fun. If you have any suggestions, leave them in the comments.