Yeah… not done yet. New deadline! January 13. (This is the nice part about being my own publisher…)
But…
I’m probably not gonna make that January 13 deadline either. It’s a busy time for me at work: Midterms. So that means I might have to reschedule this new deadline…
I am apparently the worst at meeting deadlines. The worst part of all is that I don’t feel like I’ve been goofing off (she said as she wrote this not-her-novel blog post). I’ve been doing work for my “real” job, taking care of my family, doing as much limited house cleaning as I can sneak in, eating. There haven’t been a lot of random Lord of the Rings marathons (okay, maybe one…), or binge watching Orange Is the New Black (which is what I was doing last year in January when we had an epic amount of snow/freeze days at my school) (I have been binge watching Comic Book Men, but that’s usually when I’m feeding my infant or playing with her on the floor, so it’s not like that’s interfering with my writing time).
I suppose I need to have more realistic goals. I have to face the fact that I’m not gonna be Johnny and Sean and write a zillion words this year. My original publishing plan for 2015 was to release three full-length novels plus a few short stories. I’m fearing this will not happen. I hate taking it slow; I want to get my stuff out there! But maybe the more realistic goal is to go at the pace my life allows. And my life right now does involve taking care of and raising a human being, so that’s kinda important.
2015: The year I try to live with more realistic goals.
New rough draft deadline: January 20
Don’t go using Johnny and Sean as your barometer. Figure out your own pace, stick to it, and it’ll be done in no time!
My problem is that I tend to admire really prolific writers like Ray Bradbury, so when I don’t measure up to their prolific-ness, I get bummed out. But you are right, I need work at my own pace.
Thank you for the comment!