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Freelance Consultant, Writer, Photographer, and Web Designer
Daily Grind

Happy Holidays!

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Merry Christmas! I hope you get to spend this holiday with your loved ones. I am staying home this year. I plan on taking the time to rest and recuperate. I will probably cook a nice meal at some point, and I think my friends are dropping off some leftovers the day after Christmas.

This is a good time for writing. It will help get my mind off things. it’s good to stay productive, especially during a time that is so hard for so many.

Let’s try to count our blessings during this holiday season! I am thankful for family and friends. I am also thankful for the roof over my head and for the job that pays the bills and puts food on the table. I am thankful for every blessing God has bestowed upon me, and I am praying for better health in the new year.

I hope you have a good time this holiday season! Maybe Santa will put something nice under your tree? Take care!

Merry Christmas!

Sincerely, R. Kline

Daily Grind

It’s Monday

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Time to start another week. Where did the last one go??

Christmas is this week and New Year’s is next week. It’s hard to believe another year has just about passed us by. The older I get, the more quickly time goes by.

My goal for UNHINGED is one year. By this time next year, I had better be done. Getting it published is a whole other story. Lol. I refuse to worry about that right now. I have plenty of other things to worry about.

I am hoping to make good progress this week with my writing. I plan on staying home for Christmas and spending the holiday by myself, resting. My regular job has had plenty of overtime these past few months, and I am worn out. I am looking forward to enjoying some rest and relaxation.

I also think I will use the time wisely and be productive by writing. As for today, I will be writing until I head to an appointment this afternoon. I had a fairly peaceful weekend. Some friends dropped off some cookies yesterday. It was nice.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great Monday! Take care…

Sincerely, R. Kline

KCS News

The Experience

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I wanted to tell you that I truly enjoyed building www.kcs.guru. I was done with the first edition in just a few days. I still have a few tweaks to make to it, but I expect that to be done in just a few days.

I love this experience! Designing websites is exciting to me, and I want to do more of it. If you know of anyone who wants affordable web design services, tell them to get ahold of me. I will do the best I can by them.

I also love computers and technology! What a wonderful thing! It has allowed me to do so much with it that I couldn’t do before, and I am so thankful to have it. I look forward to using computers and technology even more in the coming years to continue to create.

I am blessed to have learned as much as I have through the course of my life. I want to encourage others to keep learning and never stop.

I would like to take my experiences and use them to encourage others to keep growing and trying. Never give up! Someday, you’ll get where you are going, and you’ll be glad you made that first step in the right direction.

Have an awesome Saturday night! I will be working on some things, like I always am. Take care!

Sincerely, R. Kline

Writing UNHINGED

Self-Doubt

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Everything is coming along quite nicely, and I should feel excited and proud. Yet, I have doubts. And, I worry…

This is probably completely normal. Surely, this is a natural part of the writing process. I am trying not to become so overcome with doubts that I come to believe I can’t. I know I can.

The important thing is that I don’t get so overcome with doubts that I give up. That’s not an option. I have been thinking about this book ever since the incident happened and actually long before that. The idea of writing a book became something that I needed to do, something that must be done.

This is the point that I am at now. Determined. Yet I am also aware. I am aware of everything I need to do to bring this to fruition from this point forward. It’s a lot. It can seem a bit overwhelming at times, and I try not to let it get to me because I am making good progress with this all, the websites and the books.

The thought for the day is “Hang in there. Don’t give up five minutes before the miracle.”

Thanks again for stopping by! Take care!

Sincerely, R. Kline

PS. The picture at the top of this post is of the Susquehanna River. I was standing in York County and taking a picture of the Lancaster County side. Both counties are show in this picture and so is the Safe Harber Hydroelectric Dam. The hill on the left, where the windmills are, is Turkey Hill. That’s where your iced tea and iced cream come from. Lol. Everything was so pink on this January morning when I took the picture. It was so cold, and the ice in the river even looked pink. Enjoy!

Writing UNHINGED

Friday Night at Home

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I am spending a relaxing night at home getting some things done for the book. I spent a lot of time writing today, and I covered a lot of territory. There’s still a long road ahead of me. Yet, I can’t help but feel good about the direction I am going with this. I hope it ends up being everything I want it to.

The tricky part will be getting this published, but I have decided that I will do that, even if I have to pay for it myself in the beginning. I plan on seeing this book to fruition, and I would also like to see my other two books in print sometime after that.

I guess it doesn’t hurt to dream. After all, goals and dreams can really motivate us in life to take that next right step.

With that being said, I hope you enjoy the rest of your evening. Have a great weekend, too. Thanks for stopping by!

Sincerely, R. Kline

Writing UNHINGED

TGIF!!

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Thank God it’s Friday! For the first time in my life, I have a job where I am off on the weekends. It feels good!

How are you? Are you ready to end this week? I hope you have a great day!

I woke up feeling extra creative today. Hopefully this will get me somewhere with the writing. I have gotten some done, and I am happy with that. But there’s also that drive for more, more, more. I won’t really be happy until it’s done, printed, and in my hand.

I said I would share about the actual writing process here in this blog, so here it goes…

I started by making a skeleton. Basically, that’s an outline that includes all the subjects I want to include and the order they fall in. It’s basic, but it’s a good starting point. It’s important to know what exactly I plan to write about.

After that, I made some files for sections of time that occurred. I have been writing parts of the story, as it occurs to me, in the appropriate files. Later, I plan to put these together into one long file. I will then go through and separate the book into chapters, create an index and table of contents, and design the cover.

The website is finished for now. It will need an update in a month or so. The blog is coming along nicely and is ready for traffic. I am almost done customizing it for the experience.

I am also weighing my options for either a community or forum for discussions about mental health topics and for socialization. I guess you could say that I have plans for this website.

That’s all for now. Thanks for stopping by! Take care!

Sincerely, R. Kline

KCS News, Uncategorized

Good Morning!

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It’s Thursday. Woohoo! Closer to the end of the week. My sister calls this day Friday Eve. Lol. She has me doing that now.

I’ve been busy setting up this blogsite and customizing it. I expect this part of my website to improve dramatically in the coming weeks and months. I should end up being an awesome blog!

I didn’t get much writing done these last few days because I have been focusing on the website. Just because I haven’t been writing doesn’t mean I am not working on it. I am. Planning and generating ideas is a big part of the creative process that I go through. I plan to get around to writing more later today and into the weekend.

This has been hard because of the PTSD I suffer from. Thinking so hard about the past and everything that has happened leaves me feeling down and having some dissociation and flashbacks. I am trying to be very careful because I don’t want to stimulate myself into an episode.

That’s enough for now. Thanks for stopping by! Stop back again later because I will probably share another update by the end of the day.

Take care!

Sincerely, R. Kline

KCS News, Uncategorized

Hello world!

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This is my first post on my new blog. I spent the last few days designing my main website. Now, I am working on this blogsite. Welcome!

I have been thinking for some time now about writing a book about my personal experiences with mental illness. It’s been a lot of thinking and planning, but I finally started writing last week. I already have a good start. I’ve made tons of notes, and I have so many ideas that I can’t possibly use them all.

Anyway, it was a nice break from writing to take the time to design my website. I love web design, so it was more of a treat than actual work. It was nice to see a lot of photos I took and haven’t seen in a while.

That’s enough for my first post. I plan on writing every day. I not only want to share writing this book but also want to share some of my old work. I am looking forward to taking a walk down memory lane as I go through some of these old files.

Have a good night! Take care!

Sincerely, R. Kline