Hello Everyone, As you may have noticed, the site has changed in appearance. For a long time I’ve wanted to redesign my blog to appear more professional and clean. Part of this is to help me to feel more like a “real author”. It’s an odd thing to say as I’ve published two books now … Continue reading Blog Update
Tag: Focus
Update: Publishing Timeline and my Mental Health
Hello!I wanted to take the time to give an update on what’s going on with me and how things with The Legend of Nariko: The Goddess Prophecy are going as well as how things have been progressing. These past couple of months have been more taxing than I initially expected to be honest. I hadn’t … Continue reading Update: Publishing Timeline and my Mental Health
Scheduling the day according to Energy
I’ve come across an interesting realization as I work towards a more focused and productive lifestyle. I was hoping to have my book and my current art project completed by the end of October. The recent events have really destroyed my motivation and discipline. For the past few months I’ve been in a rut that’s … Continue reading Scheduling the day according to Energy
Trying to return back to normal.
Truth be told though, I’m not sure what normal is anymore. Hello everyone, I was hoping that my time off to re-evaluate things would lead to more fruitful self discoveries. In a sense, it has helped me to recognize some things in life that I may have taken for granted. One of those things being … Continue reading Trying to return back to normal.
Mark of Silverfrost – Correction
Hi Everyone! Awkward bit of news that was made aware to me. When I converted my book to justified formatted text, some of the lines at the end of a few paragraph had a really awkward spacing issue occur. When I was told about it I went through every page to correct the strange spacing … Continue reading Mark of Silverfrost – Correction
Brief Hiatus for Book Launch and other Projects
Hello everyone! Hope you're all safe and healthy in these troubled times. I just wanted to give an update that for the rest of the month I will be on hiatus to accomplish the following tasks: Book cover for my 2nd book, The Legend of Nariko: The Goddess Prophecy. Catching up with my editors to complete … Continue reading Brief Hiatus for Book Launch and other Projects
Resolutions and Goals
I was planning to post this earlier, but I decided to wait. With New Years behind us, the surge of what I call “New Year's Hype” has quieted down. I refer to it as hype as there’s this undeniable energy we all get at the prospect of starting a new year and working towards a … Continue reading Resolutions and Goals
Revisiting The Importance Of Self Care
Earlier this week I saw a tweet that took me a bit off guard. One of the artists I follow tweeted about how men shouldn’t have to meet expectations everyone expects of them to have value. The points she had listed were admittedly all things I had thought of as failures in my own life. … Continue reading Revisiting The Importance Of Self Care
Focus in a World Full of Noise
A great example of how difficult focus can be is how I spent 40 min on YouTube before I actually started writing this article. It can be so hard to concentrate when there are fun and easier alternatives surrounding us. Video games, movies, YouTube, anything can be more enticing as it doesn’t require as much … Continue reading Focus in a World Full of Noise
Being OK with Imperfection
First off I wanted to apologize for how late this post is. Last week I was working on finishing the 3rd, and hopefully final edition, of my first book. I focused a lot on the artwork and formatting to print correctly on Amazon’s publishing service. Getting the cover art to fit correctly can be very … Continue reading Being OK with Imperfection
Raph's Cozy Musings 