I have three new episodes of A Court of Green Clover up at Vella at the moment and I’ve been working on the next episode of High Tide this morning, with hopes of publishing it this evening. Can’t guarantee anything, but since I started drinking a cup of Flow State coffee in the morning (I started on Saturday) it’s done wonders for my ability to concentrate and get work done. I don’t know if it’s the caffeine or the lion’s mane and chaga mushroom powder in the coffee, but it does seem to work for me.

At least for now. My metabolism has a remarkable ability to adapt to practically anything I put in it and make it stop working. Frex, I can only take ibuprofen for a certain amount of time before I have to go off it and use other, less effective painkillers because at some point my metabolism says, “Nah” and I might as well be eating M&Ms.

What I might try with the Flow State brew is one week on, one week off. That should hold off the acclimatization process and I still get at least two weeks out of a month where I’m insanely productive. Because I have sooooo much to do—I need to finish ACoGC in the next week or so in order to publish it in March, I need to finish High Tide because that is painfully overdue, then I need to finish Hurricane Warning which will wrap up the Olympic Cove series, then write To Love a Wild Swan for Hidden Empire and Mage of Fire for Two Thrones. And that’s just the writing part of the biz; it doesn’t include setting up my Shopify store so that I can direct sell ebooks and signed print books, learning how to do sprayed edges so that I can offer those in the store as well, and cranking out content for my Patreon, newsletter, and social media.

And yet I still feel like a slacker. I don’t know why my brain dislikes me, I really don’t.