Book Updates: I'm making HUGE progress on the first trilogy for The Aerowyn Tales (Yes, that means there will be another trilogy to follow this one). Bellarose, the prequel, is finished and in the final stage of getting its cover and being formatted for publishing. Gerard has been through the first round of edits and will be ready for publication in July as promised. D.B. Green at Orlando House Publishing has come up with a phenomenal cover for Gerard and I can't wait to share it with the world. My newsletter subscribers will see it first and receive Bellarose before anyone else does. Sign up so you can get an insider's access. www.subscribepage.com/CarlasBooksSignUp Perspectives: Your perspective can make or break your day. You may go through the exact same happiness, loss, or pain as someone else, but how it affects you is based on you. I'm not saying if you break your leg you can magically repair it with a positive attitude. What I'm talking about is mental; how you react to life and all its fun stuff and not-so-fun stuff. My fantastical stories address this idea within the lives of my antagonists and protagonists. My characters have joyful experiences, but they also have to overcome weakness, bullies, enemies, envy, and feelings of inadequacies--all things I have faced in my own life. I don't claim to have mastered my perspective 100% of the time, because I daily face that inner voice that wants to knock me down and tell me, "You are a loser," or "You will never be able to succeed; that other author is way better than you". Since I know my perspective can help me defeat that voice, I have to consciously reboot it. I don't always win the battle and sometimes the dragons I face have hotter flames than I can overcome, but I always keep trying. My daily reminders to reboot the thought process: 1. Don't compare yourself to others. There is always someone else who is better, more talented, prettier, and skinnier than you--all are subjective to opinion. There are also plenty who lack in all of these things in comparison to you--stop comparing! We all are unique individuals with our own set of abilities and disabilities, but in the end, we're human; give yourself and others a break. 2. Don't let your worst day ever dictate your next move. Set-backs are inevitable and if I stopped writing books based on my worst day, I would have never published any stories. Quitting anything will always make me wonder, "What if I didn't quit?" 3. Accept other perspectives. Your perspective is your individual right, but make sure it isn't set in stone. If you are never willing to see another point of view, you may miss out on a way of making your attitude better. Admitting that your way of seeing things could be warped because of something that happened to you or because of your own negativity will help you try to look at things through someone else's eyes.
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