This week was a challenging one.
Mentally. Physically. I stretched myself this week. It was exciting, overwhelming, uncomfortable at times, and I thought a lot about how this feeling of things whirling around me, moving fast, feeling as though I wasn’t on solid ground…
How much of that is a sign that I am doing exactly the right thing. Anders Ericsson says that growth is uncomfortable, that in order to level up, we are actively stepping outside our comfort zone.
I feel uncomfortable.
I think it means that I’m growing.
Tomorrow, I’m going to write out a dispatch to my readers that is along these lines, but I’m taking a lateral step to the side to write the first book of a new series set in a new universe from the Starstuff universe. It’s going to by Military SciFi, which has probably the biggest, or at least most reliable, readership in SciFi right now. I want to write some books that will make me some money, give me some financial independence and foundation in my writing.
I’ve read five books so far in the genre, and I’m planning to read at least one more, the big one: Starship Troopers. I just downloaded it. I’ve read Heinlein once before, with The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. He’s probably the best pure *writer* of the big 3 in SciFi, but I wouldn’t exactly say he’s my favorite. We’ll see.
I plan to keep pushing myself outside my comfort zone. I plan to write and publish my second book. Then write and publish some more.
Let’s do this.