What a Week

It's getting late, kind of, I should say it's almost time to feed my daughter her bottle and after that it will officially be 'getting late' and so I want to get this post up now. I want to make a habit of this What a Week post and so welcome to the second round.

It was a crazy week, I can honestly say I have never known one like it. Work – I mean the ghastly day job rather than my writing a this point in time – was a bitch! Every day brought with it new urgent problems which were not fixed by the end of the day but rather superceded the following morning by the next problem that came along. Thankfully Friday was a bit quieter and I managed to get a lot of small things taken care of, and actually allowed me to take a lunch break for the first time in the week. Sadly however, this busy work schedule did not leave me with much time for writing. Especially as by the time the kids were in bed each night and the house was tidy – who am I kidding, I have three kids, tidy just isn't a work that I can use in general conversation – let me re-think… and the house no longer looked like a small war had been fought in each room and had begun to resemble a home once more (that's a bit more accurate ) I was just exhausted and writing just wasn't something I felt fully capable of.

I did my best to post something every day, and I have managed to edit the first chapter of my novel, but it certainly wasn't the sort of week I had imagined this time seven days ago.

I want to get some editing done tonight, but not sure how long I will last. The kids were up at 05:10 this morning so a repeat tomorrow makes me seriously consider an …. early night (flinch)

Next week will see me take my first business trip, heading over to Ireland (Republic of) for just one night and one day but still it should be nice. I wish I had a laptop of something I could take with me, but alas it is not so. Still, it will give me some time to catch up on my writing as well as maybe go a bit old school and write on paper … with ink.

In terms of my writing life, as mentioned above I didn't achieve as much as I had anticipated and my goal to sell one book before the end of February didn't quite come true, although I am sure it will come. My site passed the hundred views mark so that was another small victory that I marked down and cheered my day up no end.

While I haven't written much (or edited) this week, my mind has found itself inspired and has churned up almost a constant stream of scenes, potential plots and novels, not to mention characters and random lines of dialogue so I am sure once I get the time to sit down and write again I will have some great things to work with. No doubt a lot of crap too but the gems are there. I know they are.

Once again I would like to thank each and every one of my visitors and may I be presumptuous enough to say fans, for sticking with me and reading my posts. It means a lot to me that there are people out there who read what I spill onto these virtual pages.

If I could pass on any advice to take you into the second half of the weekend it would be to keep writing. I know I will.

I would like to end this post today by saying a big BIG thank you to the wonderful L M Stull who published a guest post of mine on her blog. I am forever grateful.