TL:DR: Expect an email with your survey in the next week. Filling out is important to get me counts for ordering. Revision is progressing nicely: 15 out of 24 chapters are revised. You can see a chapter-by-chapter report down below. You can also read the full chapter on Identifying Your Pillars by clicking over to read this update on Backerkit and making sure you're logged in. Your next update will be the week of November 25-29.
Details: I'll be sending out surveys sometime in the next week. This will be your chance to double check your order, check your shipping cost, and add any items you might want. Filling out your survey promptly will really help me out as I need to get counts of how many of each item I need to order. I won't be locking orders or charging cards until sometime in early 2025 when I'm placing orders for books and prepping for shipping.
I love the way the bookmarks and stickers turned out, I hope you do too. If you have a notebook as part of your order, you'll have the option to upgrade to the custom designed notebook. So here are some details on both.
The regular notebook will have a bookmark ribbon, an elastic, and a pocket in the back. You can have your choice of blank, dot grid, or lined pages in your notebook. This is the design for the cover.
The custom designed notebook will have the same artwork on the cover, but will be a slightly larger format and the interior pages will be designed specifically for the activities found in the SLSC book.
Revisions on the book are going well. I love the moment when I feel the whole chapter click together. For the second pass edit I've found an editor who is working with me to edit chapters as I finish them. This is going to save me a lot of time since I can immediately dive into a second editing pass as soon as I complete this one instead of pausing for a month. I'm hopeful that I can find a copy editor willing to work in the same way. Then I could have the whole book ready for layout by either the end of December or early January.
Here is a chapter by chapter list of what's done and what I have left to do. Last week I posted the chapter Weight of the World to my Patreon. It seemed like a thing people might need at the time. You can read it here. I've also included the chapter Identify Your Pillars here for backers only. (In order to read it, you need to click over to the Backerkit website and login)
Intro (I'll write this last)
Creativity and Dreams 1 Creative work of our lives (Also write this last) 2 Landscape of dreams DONE!
Prioritizing 3 Priorities DONE! 4 Identifying your Pillars DONE! 5 The community you need DONE! 6 The boundaries you need DONE!
Energy 7 Managing Mental Load DONE! 8 Ebbs and flows of Energy Levels DONE! 9 Replenishment and Depletion DONE! (10/28/24)
Productivity 10 Curating Your Commitments DONE! (10/30/24) 11 Your Physical Space DONE! (10/27/24) 12 Fragmentation of Creative Time DONE! (10/28/24) 13 Time Scheduling and Project Management DONE! (10/30/24) 14 The Motivation Problem DONE! (11/8/24) 15 Managing Your Motion DONE! (11/12/24)
Making Changes 16 Structuring Changes In progress 17 Goals In Progress
Special Cases to Consider 18 Believing in your work 19 Your access needs 20 Emotional processing and grief 21 Caregiving and creativity 22 Health challenges 23 When things go sour 24 Weight of the World DONE! (11/1/24) Conclusion
I'm hoping to get some of the presentations recorded and available soon.
Thank you so much for backing this project! If you have any questions about this update, please feel free to ask! Sandra
