It’s been a minute since I talked to you, my dear readers, about anything besides my usual content. I feel like changes are coming that will make my writing more of balanced priority. That slow process has made me feel like plans could be made. So, last Saturday was Maker’s Day, and I got it in my head to handcraft something I have been testing.

How do you tell if someone is serious about their work? There’s proof (mine’s on Wattpad and that Red Letters world building here) and there’s usually some form of contact card right? A here, this is how to find me and learn more at a glance kind of marketing. But it’s also good for just… admitting out loud that I am a writer, and this is what I do, without just being vague anymore. So, I have a sneak peak of my personalized writer business cards, and if it goes well? Maybe some day in the future, I will have book signings and tours and I can include handmade treats for my fans.

Until then? I am using them to tell people close to me about my writing life. The big 4-0 party feels like the first low key way to do that.

Sometimes I feel like I am not moving fast enough. And then I look at my 30th and see that I have changed and focused enough that I’m almost there, and that this is more anticipation and wanting to move faster less I am behind mindset. After all, I haven’t even had this website for 10 years yet. It started December 2017/January 2018 and I finally found my personal content modes last summer. So, every time I stress myself out, I look at the changes, realize how much effort I have put in and how long it took, and calm myself down. Slow and steady has always been my race, not something viral but fleeting. I build a core off me, being myself, telling moving stories that I hope you all enjoy. That simple and that hard.

So, maybe it’s going to be fine to take time turning this grouping of items into bookmark marketing, and let the tying of string knots potentially unlock my mental knots. I may be lost about the next thing, but I know the general direction, and writing has taught me that sometimes you have to wait and the most beautiful things come out when it’s ready. It certainly feels like I am ready this year, there are just a lot of days and months in a year to pin down that when… Trust the process, and do something else for a break when you don’t. Craft time it is. And April is a very good theme overall for this mindset of mine, handling yourself vs your social self. Until then, the foolishness restarts tomorrow, today I just wanted to talk, and show off this bit of personal touch stuff.