Focus Up; October 29 2025

I feel like I’m running so behind, this Halloween season! I only decorated the house yesterday. Very unlike me.

However, I am thrilled to report my kid is developing a sense of the macabre. This was all her:

 A thing of beauty.

I was also going to sew my own Halloween cloak for my costume this year, but ran out of time. I wound up ordering one instead, and now I’ve got to spend an afternoon painting and distressing it in the way I want. Not this afternoon, though, because I’ve got to get back on top of research for my social work practicum essay…

Housework has kind of fallen behind too…

And I have class tomorrow, so I have to plan around that…

Hoo boy. I’m busier than I thought.

Which makes it such a shame that my motivation to write is high, right now. I have an idea for a book that follows another story I’ve written, one that features some characters All Grown Up and experiencing life post-horror novel, from the perspective of a heavily traumatized girl with psychosis.

Then, naturally, whole new horrors descend on them, but it’s written almost like a romance novel. I don’t know, I want to see if I can pull it off.

Now is not the time, though! I’m too busy! I can’t do it!

… Unless…

No! Gotta focus. I gotta.

Probably.