October is here, and I’m here too—for the Fall and spooky vibes! There is not much Halloween celebrating where I live (either in my country, France, or my beloved neighborhood, whose population is mostly Turkish and Algerian).

And with October’s start, I wanted to make some kind of recap of the previous month. I don’t have much energy nowadays, because of my chronic illnesses, chronic pain, chronic fatigue, chronic everything, and seeing that I still succeeded in making some progress is good on my soul.

Blogging

I have been publishing 15 blog posts in the month of September. That’s a post every two days, in average. Not bad, since blogging more is one of my goals this year. In August, I had only posted once.

• Morning Hope
• My Plan to Earn Money in 2027
• The Reality of Chronic Pain
• 50 Goals
• Pixel Art Attempt
• Fifty
• Always Wrong Health-Wise
• First Game Asset With Aseprite
• Pixelated Irma
• New Game Asset: Zombies!
• Braiiiins 🧠
• Kanz Fan Art
• Yes I Kanz
• 50 Goals: Functioning Websites
• 50 Goals: Brainstorm Social Media Use
• Working on Systems, Not Games

So, I’ve updated the passive income assets creation counter on my homepage. Will blogging create income? Possible, but it’s more an asset for visibility that will attract traffic to my websites at some point.

Plus, I love to blog, so there’s that.

September Goals

My list of goals for September was almost all done. I started working on a game dev project by learning to make pixel art. I did not blog about progress on future income, but I did write about the assets I made (a little Irma character, a zombie, and a pixel fan art).

My husband and I worked on building some Ikea furniture for my Artelier. I’m still waiting for the handyman to start working on the things we don’t feel comfortable doing, though.

My iPad is reset and set up for future Procreate usage. I want to work on future passive income by creating designs for print-on-demand. I’m looking forward to creating some characters for my universe and put them in fun, cozy or spooky situations.

I tried to kickstart most of the social media accounts I created. I will make little status report of my first month below.

I worked on one of my health goal by getting a visio visit with a doctor. It did absolutely nothing good for my mental health, but at least I have the diabetes meds I need.

I found backups of all the books I’ve written as Irma Geddon (if you didn’t know, I published a few with this pen name a few years back, and even was included in a boxed set that earned me the USA Today Bestselling Author title). I’ve put them back into Scrivener—finished, edited books, as well as works in progress—for the next time I feel like writing fiction.

I also started the Grand Tally of my future passive income project. For now, it’s just listing expenses, since I can’t start earning income before end of March 2027.

Learning

I have followed some tutorials to learn how to make pixel art. It is fun, and I want to create my own assets for my games, so I will probably dabble with Aseprite more in the future.

I have also taken a course in drawing kawaii isometric rooms with Procreate.

Last but not least, I have started coding in Godot and I am working on a main menu system for my future game(s).

Social Media

I have started my accounts between the beginning of August and the end of September, except for my Facebook account which I already had for a long time. So, this will be the first time I make a followers/friends count.

• Bluesky: 15 followers (+15), 22 posts (+22)
• Facebook: 179 friends (+0)
• Instagram: 2 followers (+2), 5 posts (+5)
• Mastodon: 4 followers (+4), 17 posts (+17)
• Medium: 0 followers, 2 posts (+2)
• Pinterest: 0 followers
• Quora: 0 followers
• Reddit: 0 followers
• Threads: 1 follower (+1)
• TikTok: 0 followers
• Tumblr: 0 followers
• Twitch: 0 followers
• X: 4 followers (+4)
• YouTube: 0 subscribers

A lot of these accounts have few to no followers. I expected it. I have not been very active on social media—but I’m starting today with interacting more. Following my brainstorming, I will focus on Bluesky for the month of October, and see where that leads. If you’re on Bluesky, say hi!

In conclusion

I did almost everything I wanted to do in September. I didn’t blog about progress of creating assets for future passive income, because I didn’t create anything that could be used that way last month (except from some pixel art that may or may not end up in a game).

There is a ton for me to look forward to in October. Coffee to drink, time spent under a blanket as I blog, draw or code—I love Fall vibes. I like that the weather is colder, but still sunny most times. The air is crisp, and somehow time slows a little for me.

I wonder what I will be able to create, and how much I will be able to progress in my projects.