Welcome bearilou!
My work space and writing space are the same place, as I work from home — and have since before the pandemic. I've done okay with it being like this, except that I have been having issues finding time TO write with such a heavy workload. Things are easing off, but they are about to ramp up again so I am thinking I need a long-term strategy or I will just not be writing much and that is unacceptable at this point.
(I am also chronically ill, which complicates things).
I've mostly been poking at some poetry I'm going to be submitting on 10/1. It was originally a story-in-verse, except free verse, because that's how I roll, but it just wasn't working well. So I split that apart and decided to write three separate poems to a theme (love, naturally) but not as a story. So now I need to do some quick revising if I still want to make my deadline. The good news is I can use what I am not using for my submission, with some tweaks, for my poetry Instagram, which I've been neglecting terribly due to no time.
My Esperanto class is almost over and I am kind of sad. I've been enjoying it immensely.
I also got my very first review of Gain with Pain and while it's a 4-star, it's not entirely positive. The reader feels that I am "unlikeable, blunt, and intimidating." Now, I put a disclaimer in the very beginning of the book stating that hey, I am a blunt person, I don't believe in sugarcoating stuff and throwing pity parties, so if this is something you are looking for, this isn't the book for you." But anyway, I'm not broken up over it because it is a 4-star and I did expect a bit of negativity, as I am blunt, and I figured this might happen here and there. I just hope it doesn't put off too many people from reading it. The reader did note that my methods DID help and she is using them every day. Sooooo that's a good thing, right?