Mindfulness Archives - One Honest Indie

About My Interesting Weekend

05/12/2026 by Debbi

Hi everyone. Well, let’s see if this works. I’ve already tried three times to make this video. Four times if you count the time on my iPhone. Anyway, I had a great weekend, made it very clear going to one webinar that I don’t want an agent, a literary agent, because their values are completely at odds with mine. At least this one agent.

Having discerned that, I went to another video webinar where we talked about self-care, which was much more helpful than listening to this agent yammer on about algorithms.

May the Fourth Update

05/04/2026 by Debbi

Still carrying happy memories of watching *Star Wars* back in the day. 🙂

Hi. Yeah. I think what I’m trying to do today is talk a little bit about quality of life, how to live your life happily, even if you have awful things you have to deal with or bad things happen. Because believe me, dealing with dystonia for the last 20-some years has not been easy. So I have managed, and I manage to see people now and then. That’s nice when I can do that. I’ve tried to be more social lately. I’ve tried to go out and do more book signings lately.

I’ve tried to … I’m now directing the second short film or will be. I’m still in the process, the pre-production process of doing the readings and doing the rehearsal and doing … all of a sudden, I still need to get some props. I’m like, “Oh my God, it’s May and I was hoping to do this in June and I’m not sure that’s going to be possible. And I don’t know how quickly people can … “

This Indie Author’s Life

04/21/2026 by Debbi

Hi. Yeah. It’s been a long time since I’ve actually talked about what I’m doing. Okay. What am I doing these days? I just finished work on the third Erica Jensen mystery, which I hope will come out on May, whenever Memorial Day is. Don’t even know. Yeah, end of May, sometime around then. Around Memorial Day. And what else am I doing? Oh yeah, I’m trying to get a production meeting together for the second film that I’m going to be directing because as you may know, those of you who might actually pay attention to what I’m saying or read what I write, I do screenwriting now and have been doing that for quite a while, it feels like. Actually, it feels like a short time, but it’s been quite a while actually. I shudder to think of how much time has passed while I’ve been doing this because I got to tell you, screenwriting is no easy path to take and has become even less easy with the passage of time and the contraction of the industry.

Adopting ‘Zen Habits’

02/10/2026 by Debbi

Hey, so I’m engaging in a new habit. I have this book. I’ve had it for some time. I’ve read through it. I have tried to follow some of its advice. And actually, what I thought I would do is be a little more deliberate in my use of this book. What I’m going to try to do is use one of these tips every single day and see how it works out, how much progress I make. And actually, I have to admit the very first task he has in here, not task, but item, I guess. I don’t know.

Decluttering. Decluttering has been a huge problem for me. I have a tendency to keep old articles that I think would be great sources of potential ideas for stories. I have a tendency to keep old research and old drafts. I keep things in the interest of showing my work, so to speak.